Framing Disability
Understanding the Future of Post-Secondary Student Accessibility Accommodations by Documenting Past Experiences
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human information interaction, disability studies, human computer interaction, post-secondary education, policy studies, accommodation studies, EDIAAbstract
The information structures, styles and priorities of those in the disabled community are vastly different from those that make up academic culture, creating a disparity between the needs of disabled students and the support of the university accommodations system. With mixed methods data that describes the post-secondary accommodations system, a model of overlapping frames of information access and use could be created that would allow for an in-depth analysis of information and the disabled post-secondary experience. In addition to contributing to the literature on post-secondary disability and accessibility, this research will also produce concrete recommendations to improve post-secondary accommodations systems.
Encadrer le handicap: comprendre l'avenir de l’accommodement pour les étudiants postsecondaires en consignant les expériences passées
Résumé
Les structures d'information, de styles et de priorités des personnes handicapées sont très différentes de ceux qui constituent la culture universitaire, ce qui crée une disparité entre les besoins des étudiants handicapés et le soutien du système d'accommodement de l'université. Grâce à des données issues de méthodes mixtes décrivant le système d'accommodement de l'enseignement postsecondaire, il est possible de créer un modèle chevauchant accès à l'information et utilisation de l'information, ce qui permettra une analyse approfondie de l'information et de l'expérience des étudiants handicapés dans l'enseignement postsecondaire. En plus de contribuer à la littérature sur le handicap et l'accessibilité au niveau postsecondaire, cette recherche produira également des recommandations concrètes pour améliorer les mesures d'accommodement au niveau postsecondaire.
Mots-clés
Interaction humain-information; études sur le handicap; interaction humain-machine; enseignement postsecondaire; études sur les politiques; études sur les accommodements; EDIA
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