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Talk About Teaching: Ways We Teach, Focus on Disability Accommodations

October 5, 2015

Ben Salzman ’14, Educational Technologist, and Kristin Strohmeyer, Research and Outreach Librarian, joined Associate Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs and Accessibility Services Allen Harrison and Mei Lin Pratt ’16 for a panel presentation on disability accommodations at Hamilton College.  Part of the Talk about Teaching lunch series sponsored by the Dean of Faculty, the Dean of Students and LITS, faculty gathered for discussion about how we can best accommodate students during their time here.  Harrison gave an overview of the system in place at Hamilton, and the difference between K-12 where accommodations are mandated, to higher education where they are accommodated.  He reported that roughly 4-5% of Hamilton students identify with a need, and accommodations range from extra time in exams to audio copies of course readings. Strohmeyer spoke of the services that LITS provides, be it locating audio copies of texts to increased print quotas to screen magnifiers and readers on all lab computers.  Salzman demonstrated several software applications, on a laptop and an iPad, that help with note taking, studying or conversion to audio of written materials.