Disability: Part of the 股本 Equation
Metropolitan 社区 College is proud to support National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). 每年十月举行, NDEAM aims to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of America's workers with disabilities. 整个月, we'll be engaging in a variety of activities to educate our community on disability employment issues and the role they play in fostering an equitable and inclusive work culture.
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October 2024 Events will be posted in mid-September.
Disability Employment Awareness Resources
- 31 DAYS OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH (U.S. 劳工处)
- 就业介绍网
- The 就业介绍网 (JAN) is the leading source of free, 专家, and confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and disability employment issues.
- ADA合规设计的5个技巧
- 残疾历史博物馆
- This site promotes understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, 记录, 解读他们的故事. The site’s library contains document and visual stills collections.
- How to Respect People with Disabilities
- 学习 the proper way to act and speak around someone with a disability may not be as intuitive as you may think. 通常, there are ways of speaking and behaving which may be very disrespectful to the person with a disability, 给他们带来烦恼, 愤怒, 或挫折. Rather than possibly causing a problem, learn the best way to act and talk, so as to respect people with disabilities.
- ADA全国网络
- Disability Rights Laws in Public Primary and Secondary Education: How Do They Relate?
- 残障社会历史项目
- This resource is a community history project that provides information about famous activists in the disability movement, 残疾历史时间表, 以及相关信息.
- EDGE - Education for Disability and Gender 股本
- This is a research and development project to create a website, CD, and teacher's guides that will address the need for gender and disability sensitive high school educational materials.
- Journal of Teaching Disability Studies
- 设计ed for those seeking information about resources, assignments and course syllabi in the development of disability studies courses.
- Disability Studies Quarterly—the first journal in the field of disability studies
- The impact of Disability Studies curriculum on education professionals' perspectives and practice: Implications for education, 社会正义, 社会变革
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Disability Awareness Class Activity Lesson 计划 (designed for children, but some ideas may be adaptable to adult learning)
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This is a lesson center for disability awareness class activity lesson plans. As classrooms become more inclusive, it's important for every student to be welcomed and treated with respect. The goal of this resource center is to provide teachers with lesson plan ideas that will help students better understand what it's like to live with different disabilities.
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Strategies for Working with People who have Disabilities
- There are many ways that disabilities can affect the ability to perform effectively on the job. Following these simple suggestions will help people with disabilities to fully participate in work-based learning experiences.
- Administration for 社区 Living
- Employment Resources for People with Disabilities and Their Families
- 华盛顿大学
- Tips for Engaging with Differing Disabilities
- 卫生专业教室
The following points should be considered when working with students with a disability:
- 学生 with disability may also be gifted and talented and/or have English as an additional language and/or dialect. In some instances, a student may require support in more than one element of diversity
- 学生 with disability can achieve educational standards commensurate with their peers
- 学生 with disability who require adjustment/s to one learning area may not require the same adjustment/s to another learning area
- Not all students with a disability require adjustments to all dimensions of the curriculum
- 学生 with the same category of disability do not always require the same adjustments
- 学生 with disability may require different levels of adjustment over time to reach their potential
- 持续形成性评估, 特别是预评估, is critical to ensure that learning area content and adjustments align with student needs.