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Calling All Faculty! Accessible Course Training with Ally!

How to Reach and Teach All Abilities with Ally

Have you met Ally? Sign up for a proper introduction with Instructional Technology's training here: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events/79747 When: February 12th at...

posted 16 days ago

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Spring Accessible Project Update and Discussion

February 5, 2020 at Noon in UC 310

Facilities Management and the Office of Accessibility and Disability Services are hosting a review of recent, current and potential construction projects that enhance accessibility, improve the...

posted about 1 month ago

DisAbility & Identity: Wendy Maruyama, Artist and Professor

Journeying from art student to world-renowned artist

How do we talk about disability as an identity? "Talking about Deafness and disability has never been easy. I realize as time goes on, my being Deaf was the first identity that I was...

posted about 1 month ago

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RAC Renewal and Accessible Paths to Aquatics

Stair-free routes to the pool 12/20/19-3/22/20

Facilities Management has shared that the RAC Renewal Renovation project is scheduled to begin as soon as the 2019 fall semester ends on 12/20/2019. This post is excerpted from their "projects"...

posted 3 months ago

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Nothing About Us Without Us

Each year on December 3rd, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is honored as the United Nation's commitment for promoting the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. The...

posted 3 months ago

East Side Campus Access, Parking and Routes

Accessible Paths from the Commons Garage, Transit and More

Accessible routes and parking in the Commons Garage area have been available since the Interdisciplinary Life Science Building (ILSB) opened this Fall after three years of construction. The...

posted 3 months ago

Sensory Disability and Apps as Assistive Technology

Navigating sight, sound and more

When Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago wrote the novel Blindness in 1995, he highlighted how losing sight can bring out the best (and worst) in people. Technology has evolved since those days before...

posted 3 months ago

Designing Courses Inclusively for Students w/Disabilities

Faculty know-how w/Blackboard Ally & UMBC Instructional Tech

Instructional Technology is hosting a series of events for National Distance Learning Week, and many of concepts and skills that are imparted directly support better outcomes for students with...

posted 4 months ago

What's it like living with a disability?

Minda Dentler, Business school student

When Minda Dentler was a baby she contracted polio, which paralyzed her legs. Adopted by an American family, she grew up watching other kids run and jump. It wasn't until she was at university...

posted 4 months ago

Make your PowerPoints Accessible w/Instructional Technology

Be an Accessible Content Ally with your PowerPoints!

Are your PowerPoint presentations accessible to every student in your course? Instructors routinely upload PowerPoint presentations into their course, but this doesn't mean that every student has...

posted 5 months ago

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