Students with diagnosed disabilities are referred to the Student Disabilities Services (SDS) Office to submit a request for accommodations. However, receiving “official” accommodations can be expensive, stressful, and time consuming, and may ultimately be limited in scope. Some students in your classroom will not have the resources to receive official accommodations through SDS. The students requesting accommodations may also face stigma and invisible barriers to request accommodations. Disabilities can occur in the middle of a semester, be invisible, and hard to diagnose. The instructors/TAs can also be disabled themselves and may not have been fully accommodated. This conversation will briefly describe what the accommodations request process entails, and will focus on how instructors can design a classroom that is more inclusive by design for students with disabilities.

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Chemistry department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.