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ERIC Number: EJ984263
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Oct
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1471-3802
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"What Can I Do to Help?": Postsecondary Students with Learning Disabilities' Perceptions of Instructors' Classroom Accommodations
Quinlan, Margaret M.; Bates, Benjamin R.; Angell, Maureen E.
Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, v12 n4 p224-233 Oct 2012
This qualitative research report adopts a critical pedagogy perspective to examine the provision of classroom accommodations for postsecondary students with learning disabilities. Although instructors in the United States are bound to abide by disability rights laws, we also believe instructors can act in ways that allow students to feel comfortable in disclosing their disabilities and in requesting and accessing accommodations for these disabilities. We engaged the voices of 10 university students living with learning disabilities through a series of semi-structured interviews. These students offered a variety of statements on the ways that their disabilities were accommodated or not by their instructors. We classified these perceptions into three kinds of accommodation perceived by university students with learning disabilities: non-accommodation, formal accommodation and accommodation for all students. We discuss the implications that these types of accommodations have for pedagogy and offer recommendations for effective techniques for accommodating for all. We hope the voices of these students will serve to enhance communication between students with learning disabilities and their professors.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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