Elizabeth Hamblet
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jan 2018
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And the principal hands him his degree.
And back in your house in that drawer or the binder where you very diligently kept all the copies of the IEPs, they sort of disappear into magical fairy dust and they float out of the window.
And I don't mean that in any sort of dismissive way, but that's really how you kind of need to think of it.
And so I don't want listeners to panic and say, oh, my gosh, but Elizabeth just said that they give accommodations.
But then she said there are no IEPs.
I think the word plan, you know, in the vocabulary of college disability services to me is really important.
That's why I say we do accommodations instead of services.
And plans, I think, imply a level of coordination that we just don't have.
So, you know, when you have a plan, you sit down with people, you set a goal, you figure out the steps to those goals, you're going to measure the progress, you're going to report on the progress.
And none of those things happen at college.
again, perhaps in a fee-for-service situation, but again, in having interviewed a bunch of people who run those programs for the new edition of my book, some of them do have some progress reporting, but it didn't seem to be quite mandatory that professors respond to inquiries.
But plan means plan.
And so we do provide all sorts of accommodations.
And I do want to assure your listeners that
I've had students come through, and this is the third university where I've worked making those accommodation reviews.
And I have at times actually recommended more accommodations than a student was already receiving in high school.
You know, people come from all sorts of districts who may or may not, you know, see a student's needs the way that I do, or might not have offered, for instance, as my school does, access to, we use Read and Write Gold for our speech-to-text technology.
So it just means that there isn't any obligation on the part of colleges to provide exactly what your student was getting simply because that's what he got in high school.
We have a right to determine what are reasonable accommodations given what our programs are, how we view your student's eligibility for those things.
It's important to remember that the laws say that the definition of a student, and we're still using the word handicapped after all these years, but that in order to be a handicap, it has to impose a substantial limitation on an area of functioning.
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