PhD in Education/Special Education. #disabilities #inclusive classroom and curriculum #technology #UDL
Check my new article with Shehreen Iqtadar For those interested in inclusive education, in-service teachers' preparation, self-efficacy, differentiated instruction, and disability studies. Here is the link to the article https://lnkd.in/egvMkbdN
Expert Transition Specialist, Speaker & Consultant | Director of Transition Services at NESCA
Big changes happen when students with disabilities reach the Age of Majority! 🎉 In most states, this happens at 18, but some states set it at 19 or 21. At this age, decision-making rights transfer from parents to students—covering key areas like IEP participation, evaluations, and even accepting a diploma to end transition services. Preparing students early is critical! Start by teaching decision-making, introducing the IEP process, and role-playing meetings. 📖 Learn more about how to support students as they take the lead in their education by reading my NESCA blog: https://buff.ly/3ZK5ZNp #AgeOfMajority #TransitionPlanning #SpecialEducation #PostSecondaryTransition #IEP #SupportedDecisionMaking #ParentingTeens #TransitionServices
Kluge's dissertation explores the challenges faced by students with disabilities in education from a neurodiversity perspective, advocating for inclusive learning spaces that challenge existing norms of and oppression Kluge, I. (2024). Disability in Education from a Neurodiversity Standpoint: A Multi-Article Dissertation. https://lnkd.in/ehMPbJu5 https://lnkd.in/e3TxhqKk
As we end Inclusive Schools Week, we’d like to share some important resources co-authored by our Senior Education Policy Advisor in collaboration with the TIES Center. These briefs are great resources for K-12 education for people with Down syndrome. Click the links below to view! TIES Brief #1: 10 Reasons to Support Inclusive School Communities for ALL Students: https://lnkd.in/eRNsiRAi TIES Brief #2: Taking the Alternate Assessment Does NOT Mean Education in a Separate Setting!: https://lnkd.in/efvBesWC TIES Brief #3: Developing IEPs that Support Inclusive Education for Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities: https://lnkd.in/eMheDvmf #NDSC #downsyndrome #InclusiveEducation
Assistive Technology for Inclusive Education: A Systematic Review A recent review of 31 studies sheds light on the role of assistive technology (AT) in fostering the inclusion of students with disabilities. AT has proven effective in enhancing accessibility and academic performance, yet barriers like teacher training and resource availability remain significant challenges. This comprehensive study calls for continued investment in both AT resources and the professional development of educators to fully realize the potential of inclusive education. Full study: https://shorturl.at/ADvXK #InclusiveEducation #AssistiveTechnology
We invite you to participate in our research concerning Australian Teachers’ Perceptions of the Inclusion of Students with Disability. This research, led by Dr. Traci-Ann Garrad from The University of Notre Dame Australia and Dr. Samantha Vlcek from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, aims to explore and understand Australian teachers' perceptions of the inclusion of students with disability as categorised by the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). Your insights will help us gauge: Instructional Knowledge: Do you feel you have enough training or professional development in supporting students with various disability? Teacher Self-Efficacy: How confident are you in your ability to meet these students' needs? Support Adequacy: Are the current supports and services available to you adequate? The survey should take no more than 20 minutes of your time to complete, and your contribution is highly valued and appreciated in helping us to support teachers Australia wide. https://lnkd.in/gmGR4nYY Image Description: The image is an informational flyer for a research survey. It is divided into several sub sections and includes a QR code. Contact information is included for the principal researcher Email: traci-ann.garrad@nd.edu.au Phone: 02 8204 4200 Ethics has been granted by the University of Notre Dame Australia approval number 2023-097S
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webinar: THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN EDUCATION (part 5) by: Dr. Toufan DANESHMAND Diversity of special educational needs Another factor making classroom increasingly diverse has been the inclusion of students with disabilities into classrooms with non-disabled peers. .In Canada similar legislation was passed in individual provinces during the same general time period. The laws guarantee free, appropriate education for children with disabilities of any kind—whether the impairment is physical, cognitive, emotional, or behavioral. The laws also recognize that such students need special supports in order to learn or function effectively in a classroom with non-disabled peers, so they provide for special services (for example, teaching assistants) and procedures for making individualized educational plans for students with disabilities. As a result of these changes, most American and Canadian teachers are likely to have at least a few students with special educational needs, even if they are not trained as special education teachers or have had no prior personal experience with people with disabilities. Classroom teachers are also likely to work as part of a professional team focused on helping these students to learn as well as possible and to participate in the life of the school. The trend toward inclusion is definitely new compared to circumstances just a generation or two ago. #health #healing #education #webinar #business #daneshmand_group #Dr_Toufan_Daneshmand www.daneshmand-group.com https://lnkd.in/d9pipS3c
Deputy Head - Internal Quality Assurance Cell , Sankalchand Patel University Ranking, Rating & Accreditation-HEIs
Explore effective ways to support students with disabilities in higher education institutions. Read the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines to know more: https://lnkd.in/d4HqtEbt Sankalchand Patel University (SPU) #UGC #InclusiveEducation #Accessibility #Students #DisabilityRights #EducationForAll
Professor specialising in higher education assessment, feedback and artificial intelligence
“Accommodations compromise credentials” is not just ableist, it’s also a bad take from an assessment perspective. Validity is all about making the best judgement of what someone is capable of. Some assessments are designed so that some students need accommodations to demonstrate what they can do. Removing the accommodations hurts validity.
A/Professor of Public Policy, Deputy Head of School, and Associate Dean at the University of Sydney
I sincerely hope the Times Higher Education is ok today because their Editors published a piece saying that students with disabilities may not be competent to receive their academic degrees. As a student and now academic with a disability, I worry about anyone who decides that today is a good day to target people with a disability; to denigrate and shame them for daring to go to University - as well as attacking those people and institutions who try to help. I won't link to the piece - but a screenshot is below.
Experienced senior leader reimagining HE, Research & Innovation | Connecting people & ideas with purpose💡
Times Higher Education this is obscene. How have you allowed this to be published. NADSN - National Association of Disabled Staff Networks have you seen this nonsense! A good time to share a counter- our latest paper on experiences of disabled scholars https://lnkd.in/eq3j5TYj
A/Professor of Public Policy, Deputy Head of School, and Associate Dean at the University of Sydney
I sincerely hope the Times Higher Education is ok today because their Editors published a piece saying that students with disabilities may not be competent to receive their academic degrees. As a student and now academic with a disability, I worry about anyone who decides that today is a good day to target people with a disability; to denigrate and shame them for daring to go to University - as well as attacking those people and institutions who try to help. I won't link to the piece - but a screenshot is below.
Research Culture / EDI / Embodied Inquiry / ableism / gender / marginalisation / creative methods / STEMM / Public Engagement / Impact / Science Communication / Reflection and Reflexivity
Ableism looks like this. Of course it’s only students who are disabled. Of course no-one disabled has the competency or ability to contribute to the real world. Of course being disabled means you are incapable of having or doing a high level, professional job. This is what #CasualEverydayAbleism looks like. It is infectious. Insidious. It seeps into every aspect of life creating #NegativeAssumptions that disabled people have to face and fight. Every. Single. Day. Anyone can be or become disabled. At any age. How many people are being written off and having their achievements discounted like this? This is *really* why there is a disability pay gap, a disability awarding gap, why disabled people are underrepresented in academia, in science, are less likely to submit grant applications (or win them), and are less likely to be found in senior positions in business. #Ableism is everywhere. This is what it looks like. Now imagine you face intersectional barriers because you are also a woman (of course women aren’t as capable of high level ideas- just look at the Nobel prizes) and/or Black, LGBTQIA+, or live/work outside of EuroWestern society, or you have one or more other underrepresented characteristic… But of course this is just #BeingWoke as we all know that the world is actually #Meritocratic. The cream rises to the top, right? Next time, everybody, Times Higher Education, please speak up, speak out. Would you let it slide if it were such blatant #racism? #sexism? Don’t be part of the problem. #HappySunday #WhatIsThisBullshit #TimeToChange #TimeForChange NADSN - National Association of Disabled Staff Networks Prof Kelly Pickard-Smith (She / her) Prof Jackie Carter LLB Inclusive Employment Aly Young Georgina Randsley de Moura Professor Damien Page Josie C. Sarah Slowe (FAHEP)
A/Professor of Public Policy, Deputy Head of School, and Associate Dean at the University of Sydney
I sincerely hope the Times Higher Education is ok today because their Editors published a piece saying that students with disabilities may not be competent to receive their academic degrees. As a student and now academic with a disability, I worry about anyone who decides that today is a good day to target people with a disability; to denigrate and shame them for daring to go to University - as well as attacking those people and institutions who try to help. I won't link to the piece - but a screenshot is below.
