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This webpage, made available by the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, features a 1-page resource that provides an overview of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. These laws, enacted in the United States, "work together to...
Stairway to STEM is an online resource for autistic students, their parents, and post-secondary STEM instructors. The goal of the project is to produce tools and events designed to build awareness of academic and employer-based STEM programs among autistic individuals. This resource also promotes existing evidence-based practices to an expanded...
This webpage, from the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, explains the many free text to speech options that are available on devices students may already own. Text to speech can be helpful for a number of readers: those who struggle with reading, those with visual impairments, and those who speak English as a second language. All...
This webpage, from the National Center on Accessible Educational Resources, is a resource that instructors and students can use to learn about tools for making math content accessible to all learners. "This resource focuses on the use of text-to-speech, handwriting and speech recognition [,] and other supports." Tools include EquatIO, Microsoft...
Teaching Deaf Students Online, a new self-paced professional development course, can help you adapt your online courses to ensure that they are accessible and inclusive. It is now available in the free online learning library of the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC). In just two hours, gain a basic understanding of accessible...
The National Center for PTSD, housed within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, works to "improve the care of Veterans and others affected by trauma through its strong commitment to research on the prevention, causes, assessment, and treatment of traumatic stress disorders." As a center of excellence for research and education of post...
This RespectAbility webpage provides information, resources, and websites that may help people with disabilities find a job. This webpage offers a resource guide titled People with Disabilities Work and the Finding a Job as a Person With a Disability in Los Angeles Toolkit. The resource guide and toolkit are provided in HTML, PDF, and Word document...
This article, from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, describes commonly used accommodations and adaptations for autistic individuals in the workplace. The article is divided into the following sections: To address communication issues, To prepare for sensory sensitivities, To address behavioral concerns, To support organizational needs, To...
This Job Accommodation Network webpage includes a series of publications about accommodation and disabilities. This series "... is designed to help employers determine effective accommodations and comply with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)." These publications could also be helpful to employees, rehabilitation professionals,...
This article, from the DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) website, discusses computer accommodations for people with mobility impairments. The article discusses the importance of assistive technologies and then provides a descriptive list of computing tools "... that have been effectively used by individuals with...