The Faculty Learning Community on Disability Issues (FLCDI) was initiated in response to the original grant proposal submitted for the Access to Quality Higher Education grant. The goals of the FLCDI are to:

assist faculty with focusing on the nature and needs of the most common disabilities of students in higher education assist in the transition of college students with disabilities be aware of classroom accommodations and assistive technology for students with disabilities develop effective teaching strategies and universal design for learning to assist students with disabilities educate colleagues to be advocates for college students with disabilities.

There will be a dual emphasis of the Faculty Learning Community on Disability Issues:
– teaching methods to assist students with disabilities will be studied
– synthesizing research to better understand the experiences of students with disabilities

Through the Faculty Learning Community on Disability Issues the faculty will be conducting action research that directly relates to their individual research on disability issues. As we have discovered, through documented research findings, accommodations made for students with disabilities benefits the class as a whole.

Kent State University, Center for Disability Studies, 414 White Hall, PO, Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242    
1-888-677-5009

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