October is Disability Awareness Month! Join Us!
Come learn more about inclusion on campus
Highlights of Disability Awareness Month at UMBC include:
The 2018 Provost’s Teaching & Learning Symposium Posters on Transformative Learning Experiences for Diversity & Inclusion will happen on October 12, 2018, 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Two noteworthy presentations:
Making Course Content Accessible: A Blackboard Ally Pilot, Mariann Hawken
(Instructional Technology)
Are your Blackboard courses fully accessible? How would you know if your course
materials are accessible to all students? Blackboard Ally is a tool that focuses on making
digital course content more accessible. Integrated into the Blackboard system, Ally provides
a robust toolkit to help remediate inaccessible content, provide alternate formats to
students, and inform faculty about ways to improve accessibility of their materials. The
FA2018 Ally pilot will provide participating faculty with an opportunity to evaluate the
system, remediate course content for accessibility, and provide feedback support staff about
Ally's future use at UMBC.
Universal Design for Instruction, Michael Canale (Office of Accessibility and Disability
Services)
Institutions reported enrolling approximately 1.1 million students with disabilities during
the 12-month 2016-2017 academic year. An increase of 28% from the 2006-2007 12-month
academic year. The types of disabilities reported by institutions are 26% learning disabilities,
24% Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), 15% Autism Spectrum Disorder,
20 % mental illness/psychological conditions, 11% Physical/health impairment, 4% sensory
impairment. Only 1 in 4 will graduate with a bachelor’s degree. These numbers only reflect
those students who have registered with their student disability service office.
Universal Design of Instruction has been defined as: an approach to teaching that consists of
the proactive design and use of inclusive instructional strategies that benefit a broad range of
learners including students with disabilities. The nine Principles of UDI provide a
framework for college faculty to use when designing or revising instruction to be responsive
to diverse student learners and to minimize the need for “special” accommodations and
retrofitted changes to the learning environment (Scott, McGuire, & Embry, 2002).
Want to stop by and learn more? RSVP through the event link below.
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Accessible routes to the Ground Floor of the Commons
Partial closure & temporary exterior route changes 'til 10/5
The contractor working on the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building will begin installing new sidewalk pavers near the south entrance of the Commons Building beginning approximately Wednesday 9/19/2018. The installation will require the temporary relocation of the exterior walkway in this area and partial closures to the Commons Building entry doors. The rotation of door closures will continue through approximately Friday 10/5/2018 with minor shifts to the exterior walkway continuing through mid-October.
An accessible route will be maintained into the Commons Building and through the area during most of this time. During times that an accessible route to the ground floor entrance is not available, signage will direct pedestrians to an alternate accessible route. Entrances to the first floor and upper levels of The Commons will be unaffected by the project.
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Disability as Diversity on the Job
How is inclusion practiced in our workplace?
Faculty and staff can learn more about what disability, the interactive process, and accommodation are about, as well as challenges that affect the connection with campus resources in this dynamic session being held on October 23, 2018 at noon.
Diversity is a core value that enhances our work as well as our academic arenas, and being able to welcome, respect and effectively interact with our campus members with disabilities is essential.
Providing reasonable accommodation is part of UMBC's core value, and the Office of Accessibility and Disability Services staff has designed this training to explain the process and offer expert guidance.
This training provides faculty and staff with information to understand disability and inclusion, along with basic and intermediate skills for navigating the accommodation request and referral process. The training will also identify campus processes and services that support faculty, staff, students and visitors with disabilities.
Join us as we explore strategies for inclusion that enhance diversity on the job.
*For more information, or to request a disability-based accommodation, please contact Stephanie Lazarus via 410-455-5745 or slazar@umbc.edu with your request.
Offered through a partnership between the Office of Accessibility and Disability Services and the Department of Human Resources in support of Disability Awareness Month.
Space is limited and registration is required. Registration deadline is Friday, October 19th! Register via the Training site linked below.
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How to Make Your Course ACCESSIBLE
July 25, 2018, 12pm, Math/Psych Rm 222
Learn
how to make your course materials accessible now and save time later!
The objective of this hands-on training will focus on providing faculty
with the basic skills to assess if their course materials are accessible
and to learn how to easily make them accessible in order to support
access and inclusion of students with disabilities and universal design
for all learners.
Trainees
should bring their laptop with Adobe Acrobat Pro or DC installed and at
least one PDF document from their course materials to review. Direct
instruction will be provided for both creation of an accessible document
and remediation of inaccessible content using common authoring tools
including Microsoft and Adobe products. For questions or to RSVP,
contact Andrew Drummond, SDS Assistive Technology Specialist at adrumm@umbc.edu or reserve through the myUMBC event site. Space is limited.
Learn
how to make your course materials accessible now and save time later!
The objective of this hands-on training will focus on providing faculty
with the basic skills to assess if their course materials are accessible
and to learn how to easily make them accessible in order to support
access and inclusion of students with disabilities and universal design
for all learners.
Trainees
should bring their laptop with Adobe Acrobat Pro or DC installed and at
least one PDF document from their course materials to review. Direct
instruction will be provided for both creation of an accessible document
and remediation of inaccessible content using common authoring tools
including Microsoft and Adobe products. For questions or to RSVP,
contact Andrew Drummond, SDS Assistive Technology Specialist at adrumm@umbc.edu or reserve through the myUMBC event site. Space is limited.
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How to Make Your Course ACCESSIBLE
April 24, 2018, 12pm MP 222
Learn
how to make your course materials accessible now and save time later!
The objective of this hands-on training will focus on providing faculty
with the basic skills to assess if their course materials are accessible
and to learn how to easily make them accessible to support access and
inclusion of students with disabilities and universal design for all
learners. Improving access is a campus-wide responsibility and this is how you can be a part of the movement.
Trainees should bring their laptop with Adobe Acrobat Pro or DC installed (available free at https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Software )
and at least one PDF document from their course
materials. Direct instruction will be provided for both creation of an
accessible document and remediation of inaccessible content using common
authoring tools including Microsoft and Adobe products.
For questions or to RSVP, contact Andrew Drummond, SDS Assistive Technology Specialist at adrumm@umbc.edu or reserve a space through the myUMBC event site. Space is limited.
*This
is a repeat session and part of the Office of Accessibility &
Disability Services' ongoing brown bag lunchtime training opportunities
for faculty and staff.
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Wheelchair Basketball Night in the RAC
April 25, 2018, 5pm
You are invited to help us raise campus awareness about accessibility by participating in a wheelchair basketball game with
the Maryland Ravens, whose mission is to build cooperation and foster
relationships between people with disabilities and their community.
The
Ravens organization provides the equipment, a brief training clinic for
players of all abilities (with or without disability), and a very
entertaining game! You
and your teammates (volunteer campus partners of staff, faculty and
students) provide the effort for a very enjoyable, mixed-ability game on
wheels.
Come
out, ready to play and learn via this fun and supportive experience and
strengthen the UMBC community as the Maryland Ravens build teamwork and
cooperation between people with physical disabilities and able-bodied
people. This event has been a great success in the past and we need you to continue the tradition as a player or spectator. Bring a friend or colleague, and let's raise awareness about disAbility together!
WHEN: April 25, 2018 in the RAC Arena
Clinic at 4:30 pm--- Learn how to navigate the game using a specialized wheelchair and shoot hoops with the team!
Game: 5 pm--- Tipoff! Use the skills you gained from the clinic and play in the game!
Meet and greet after the game: 6:30-7pm--- Meet the players from the Maryland Ravens!
The Maryland Ravens are a non-profit organization based in Baltimore that strives to help physically challenged and able-body people build a sense of teamwork, cooperation, and community involvement. Learn more about them here: http://www.marylandravens.org/
*This
event is being offered in partnership by UMBC's Recreation &
Physical Education department (Athletics), the Office of Accessibility
& Disability Services, Student Disability Services, the Adaptive
Sports Committee, Global Brigades, and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.
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