Finding America's Most Disability-Friendly Colleges

Autor/in	Tiedemann, Chris Wise
Titel	Finding America's Most Disability-Friendly Colleges
Quelle	In: Exceptional Parent, 38 (2008) 9, S.28-30 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-9157
Schlagwörter	Independent Living; Physical Disabilities; Assistive Technology; College Faculty; College Students; Student Personnel Services; Ancillary School Services; California; Illinois; Ohio; Pennsylvania; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstverantwortung; Physical handicap; Körperbehinderung; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Kalifornien; USA
Abstract	In the United States today, if a student with a serious physical disability wants to go away to college and live on campus, only four colleges provide the necessary services for that student to do so. To meet these students' requirements for living on campus, a college would have to have not only accessibility to its academic programs and its campus (both required by law), but also such things as personal care assistance, meal assistance, lift-equipped buses or vans, and wheelchair repair. Those that could--University of California at Berkeley, Wright State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania--each followed different philosophies of enablement. However, each one had the goal of combining an excellent education with the training and experience to live as independently as possible. This article presents profiles of these four most disability-friendly colleges which are listed in rough order of the speed at which they move a student toward independent living. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10