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Major Assignment #1: Innovative Practices in Special Education Angelica Paton Department of Education, Rowan University SPED 08555: Education and Psychology of Students with Disabilities Professor Jiyeon Lee June 3, 2024

Paton 1 Overview This video from the DO-IT website discusses the accommodations available to individuals with disabilities to ensure that they are able to participate in informal STEM learning programs. Providing Accessible Informal STEM Learning Link: https://www.washington.edu/doit/videos/index.php?vid=109 Summary Throughout this 11 minute video from DO-IT, multiple directors and curators discuss the accommodations they have made for their facilities. Charlotte Martin of the Intrepid Museum has implemented larger text, text labels, QR codes for digital learning, and updated online content for her museum goers. Katy Menne, the Curator of Education at North Carolina Maritime Museum, has also implemented QR codes that bring users to a semi-guided audio tour that also includes American Sign Language. Her museum has also implemented Braille maps around the building that help create a safe and inclusive environment. Issac Beavers, with the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, discusses how they ensure they are providing for their patrons as necessary. They ask what consumers might need when registering new attendees. Beavers explains that they include Braille, tactile representations, audio access, American Sign Language, and FM devices. The Supported Employment Program Manager at Attleboro Enterprises, Ryan Saglio, discusses that bathrooms, benches, wide walking paths all should be easy to implement for accessibility and are necessary for all groups of people. She discusses the implications of not having such accessibilities and how detrimental it can be to someone’s experience. Tany Holzworth, the content designer for Inclusive Classroom Tools at Microsoft, discusses successful accommodations, such as updating the accessibility guidelines on her previous employment’s

Paton 2 website, a zoo. By doing so, individuals with disabilities were able to volunteer and visit the zoo more frequently. Training staff and volunteers to presume competence of incoming volunteers was also a successful implementation. At the Pacific Science Center, Diana Johns is the Vice President for Exhibits, Education, and Outreach. She made sure to make the older building more accessible for all. All of these speakers have the same goal; making the world more accessible for the disabled community. Some suggestions made by each of these speakers includes; engaging directly with disabled self-advocates at all levels of planning helps to understand what the priorities and challenges may be, looking at the whole person when designing exhibits, testing accommodations, and including high contrast, larger print, and clear communication. When creating, or taking away, accommodations, it is very important to keep all communities in mind, rather than looking at just one small part of the community. Ryan discusses that making accommodations for one group of people can open doors for all different types of people, such as wheelchair accommodations making it easier for moms with strollers, or picture menus for the visually impaired that can also make it easier on those with severe anxiety. Peer-Reviewed Literature Barbara R. Heard’s article, “Supporting Students with Blindness and Visual Impairments in Microbiology” discusses creating accessible course websites, documents, and presentations. This relates back to DO-IT’s video, because having online accessibility is important for individuals with disabilities. This allows for these individuals to have documents read aloud and also allows for them to enlarge the documents to make it easier to see. Another accessibility made clear in Heard’s article is enabling audio descriptions, providing closed captions, providing

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Paton 3 Braille material, and more. This article mentions many more accommodations that are important to students with visual impairments, but can also be helpful to students with other disabilities. Cecilie Krogh touches on the lack of accessibility for individuals in wheelchairs in the workplace and the implications that can occur. She discusses that many employers think it is too much of a hassle to accommodate those with disabilities. Some employers, however, discuss that adapting the building would be an easy fix and would help those in wheelchairs. Unfortunately, this happens more times than not. Unlike those in the DO-IT video, some people are not as willing to be accommodating. Implications This topic is an extremely important one because people with disabilities deserve the ability to work, enjoy a museum, and be part of the community. They are people and they do not deserve to be denied accessibility, like some of the employers have done in Krogh’s article. Individuals with disabilities are people and deserve the basic human rights that anybody else has. I learned that, although there are people that will go above and beyond to create accommodation and implement accessibility for the disabled community, there are still others who refuse to. I have also learned that there are many different things that I can implement into my classroom that would help students with learning disabilities, such as audio recordings, online resources, larger text, and more. Two specific ways in which I will change my practice will be to make sure wherever I am is wheelchair accessible, and if it is not, I will go through the proper channel to ensure change. Though this might seem like a daunting task, I know I can make this change to ensure those with wheelchairs are able to be in the classroom like anyone else. I will also be sure to implement large texts along with audio resources for visually impaired students. I actually have a

Paton 4 student who currently needs glasses but refuses to wear them. I think this could help even slightly. I will discuss these plans with my coworkers, supervisors, and administration. I think and know that it is extremely important to ensure an accessible and safe environment for all. Especially in the school setting, everyone deserves the opportunity for an education.

Paton 5 Works Cited Heard, B. R. (2023). Supporting students with blindness and visual impairments in microbiology. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 370 doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnad029 Krogh, C. (2023). The relationality of workplace accessibility–employers’ perceptions of accessibility and the impact on recruitment of wheelchair users. Disability & Society , 1– 23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2254471

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