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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED233779 AUTHOR: Corrado, Thomas; Colfer, Mary Ellen
TITLE: Sourcebook: Disabled Student Services.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1982
NOTE: 159 p.
AVAILABILITY: Two-Year College Development Center, SUNY at
Albany, 135 Western Avenue, Draper 306, Albany, NY 12222
($6.00; Quantity, $5.00).
ABSTRACT: Designed for use by coordinators of disabled
student services at New York State two-year colleges, this
sourcebook represents a compendium of ideas,
recommendations, facts, problems, and solutions related to
serving disabled two-year college students. Introductory
remarks describing the sourcebook's purpose and New York's
Disabled Student Project are followed by background
information regarding concerns and resources, trends and
projections, and barriers to working with disabled students.
Subsequent sections cover: (1) the legal rights of disabled
students as stated by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
of 1973; (2) identification of disabled students; (3)
attitudes of and toward disabled individuals; (4) access and
safety concerns, such as program accessibility, barrier-free
design, adapted equipment and techniques, laboratory safety
practices, evacuation of disabled persons, first aid, and
access to vocational education; (5) instructional
accommodations for disabled students including those with
mobility, emotional, learning, visual, speech, and hearing
impairments; (6) career planning issues, including
affirmative action, equal employment rights, job training,
employer concerns, and tips for job seekers; (7) selected
programs, projects, and publications of specific community
colleges in the state; and (8) information resources,
including organizations and associations, periodicals and
newsletters, audiovisual materials, media distribution
centers, funding sources, and resource centers. (LL)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Ancillary-School-Services; Career-Planning;
Community-Colleges; Design-Requirements; Federal
Legislation; Handicap-Identification; Hearing-Impairments;
Learning-Disabilities; Physical-Disabilities; School
Publications; School-Safety; Speech-Handicaps; Two-Year
Colleges; Visual-Impairments
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Accessibility-for-Disabled; *Disabilities
; *Special-Education; *Two-Year-College-Students
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