Services for Students with Services for Students with DisabilitiesDisabilitiesKelli Bradley, LMSWDisabilities Services CoordinatorSSB 4.206512-471-6259

What We DoWhat We Do Determine eligibility and implement

academic accommodations for students with disabilities.

Consult and educate faculty and staff regarding accommodations and working with students with disabilities.

Reduce barriers on campus. Goal of accommodations is to provide equal

access and opportunity, not guarantee success or provide an unfair advantage.

Seek to “level the playing field” for students with disabilities.

Who We ServeWho We Serve

Mobility Deaf and Hard of Hearing Blind or Visually Impaired Medical Temporary “Invisible” Disabilities

Traumatic Brain Injury Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Learning Disabilities Psychological Disorders

Who We Are:Who We Are:Services for Students with Services for Students with

DisabilitiesDisabilitiesDirector Stephani Wolfe, LCSW

Assistant Director for Deaf /Hard of Hearing Services Lauren Kinast, M.A.

Disabilities Services Coordinator Emily Shryock

Disabilities Services Coordinator Justin Rogers, M.Ed

Disabilities Services Coordinator Kelli Bradley, LMSW

ATEC and Testing Coordinator Craig High

Assistive Technology Lab Manager Sabaa Kashmiri

Administrative Associate Dora Villanueva

Administrative Assistant Heather Kaplan

Accommodation ExamplesAccommodation Examples

Student and Faculty Accommodations Extended Time Reduced Distraction

Environment Copy of Class Notes Permission to Audio

Tape Lectures Preferential Seating

Student and SSD Accommodations Books in Alternative

Texts / ATEC JAWS: screen reading

software Kurzweil 3000: scan and

read systems Dragon Naturally

Speaking Brailing Text Computer-Based

Testing Scribe or Reader for

Exams Reduced Course Load Priority Registration

Disability ProfileDisability Profile

As of the Spring 2011semester, 1687 students were registered with SSD.

Trends Increase in psychological disorders Increase in complexity of student-multiple

diagnoses

Disability Statistics at UTDisability Statistics at UT

ResourcesResources

Undergraduate Writing Center (UWC): 471-6222

Sanger Learning and Career Center: (512) 471-1217

Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC): 471-3515

University Health Services (UHS): 475-8252

Department of Assistive and RehabilitativeServices (DARS): 1-800-628-5115

LearningAlly.org (formerly Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic)

Questions? Questions?