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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Five Windows and a Locked Door: University Accommodation Responses to Students with Anxiety Disorders
Sokal, Laura
Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, v7 n1 Article 10 2016
Increasing enrolments of post-secondary students with disabilities are resulting in accessibility services offices reaching capacity levels. This trend has created the "perfect storm" in terms of meeting these students' needs. While collaboration between accessibility services staff and professors seems a logical solution to maximizing resource management and ameliorating this issue, additional tensions arise when issues of fairness, authority, and roles come into play. Using the constructionist model of disability as a lens, I analyzed the viewpoints of faculty members and accessibility services staff members in order to contribute to our understanding about these tensions as well as to make recommendations for their resolution.
Descriptors: Student Needs, Anxiety Disorders, College Students, Accessibility (for Disabled), College Faculty, Interviews, Justice, Power Structure, Role, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Equal Education, Foreign Countries
University of Western Ontario and Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Mills Memorial Library Room 504, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6, Canada. Tel: 905-525-9140; e-mail: info@cjsotl-rcacea.ca; Web site: http://www.cjsotl-rcacea.ca/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada (Winnipeg)
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