Strategies for assisting students with disabilities — providing accommodations in college classes

by Kéran Billaud
Ph.D. student, University of Florida

Kéran Billaud

Kéran Billaud

Disabilities can affect physical movement, visual-spatial perception, sensitivity, concentration, and social interaction. Each one of these can make a lecture or lab more difficult than they need to be for a student who has disabilities.

Colleges and universities are required to provide accommodations for students with disabilities to create an equal learning environment for each student.

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