What can disabled student services offices do to help students with disabilities successfully transition from two- to four-year colleges?
Students with disabilities often face challenges as they transfer from two-year to four-year institutions of higher education. There are many things that the institutions can do, individually and cooperatively, to ease this transition. Forty-six staff and faculty from two- and four-year institutions representing a total of twenty-four states made suggestions as part of five focused discussions hosted by DO-IT at the University of Washington. Listed below are some of their ideas. Two-year institutions can help students with disabilities successfully transition to four-year schools in the following ways: • Become more familiar with four-year college policies, procedures, programs, and services. • Educate faculty and staff about disability and transfer issues, accommodation strategies, and resources. • Share information about transfer strategies and steps using publications and the World Wide Web. • Assure disability-related documentation used is acceptable to most four-year schools. Give
Students with disabilities often face challenges as they transfer from two-year to four-year institutions of higher education. There are many things that the institutions can do, individually and cooperatively, to ease this transition. Forty-six staff and faculty from two- and four-year institutions representing a total of twenty-four states made suggestions as part of five focused discussions hosted by DO-IT at the University of Washington. Listed below are some of their ideas. Two-year institutions can help students with disabilities successfully transition to four-year schools in the following ways: • Become more familiar with four-year college policies, procedures, programs, and services. • Educate faculty and staff about disability and transfer issues, accommodation strategies, and resources. • Share information about transfer strategies and steps using publications and the World Wide Web. • Assure disability-related documentation used is acceptable to most four-year schools. Give
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