Diversity & Inclusion Resources

Grounded in the theories of learner-centered teaching and successful course design, this book outlines the key legislation, decisions, and guidelines that govern online learning. The book also demystifies assistive technologies and includes step-by-step guidance for creating accessible online content. Includes a wealth of tips and suggestions for effectively communicating with disabled students. Contains practical advice on purchasing accessible course management systems, developing solutions for inaccessibility issues, and creating training materials for faculty and staff to make online learning truly accessible.

The editors and contributors to this volume explore the intersections of disability, race, gender, and sexuality as these various aspects of identity influence each other and make identity fluid. They argue that the line between ability and disability is blurred. Disability is both an individual identity and a social category, and the decision to pass is rooted in stigma, conditioning, social norms, and other complicated and overlapping factors.

Covers a range of conditions that cause learning difficulties for children, including visual impairment, hearing impairment, deaf-blindness, orthopedic impairment, motor disorders and health impairments, as well as a brand new chapter on traumatic brain injury. This comprehensive guide equips you with informed and practical strategies to ensure that all pupils are included and provided for in the best possible way. Writing in his popular accessible style, Michael Farrell suggests the best ways of dealing with a variety of conditions, always with practical classroom situations in mind. Explains the legal contexts, looks at the range of provision, suggests intervention and support strategies, gives points for reflection, and suggests further reading.

Life on Wheels makes sure the 1.7 million regular wheelchair users in the United States take full advantage of every available opportunity. It is the A-Z guide for all you need to know about every aspect of living with mobility impairment. This unique book offers an initial road map to the lifelong, complex, and fascinating road of the disability experience. Life on Wheels is primarily a practical guidebook for those with a mobility disability, but it is also a great educational tool for readers of all abilities.

Combining critical policy analysis with biographical accounts, this book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It asks whether life has really changed for disabled people and shows the value of using biographical methods in new and critical ways to examine social and historical change over time.