Accommodations in Higher Education Under the Americans with Disabilities ACT

A No-Nonsense Guide for Clinicians, Educators, Administrators, and Lawyers
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-57230-323-2
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

This practical manual offers essential information and guidance for anyone involved with ADA issues in higher education settings. Fundamental principles and actual clinical and administrative procedures are outlined for evaluating, documenting, and accommodating a wide range of mental and physical impairments. Contributors draw upon extensive hands-on experience with managing ADA issues. Throughout, chapters provide helpful diagnostic roadmaps, sample reports, and resource listings. Cutting through the morass of confusion surrounding current disability mandates, this book steers clear of political and ideological debates. Its balanced coverage and straightforward approach help it fill a vital need for mental health clinicians, learning disabilities and rehabilitation specialists, administrators in postsecondary institutions and testing organizations, and legal professionals.

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Michael

Keiser, Shelby

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Foreword, Alta Lapoint
Preface, Michael Gordon and Shelby Keiser
1. Underpinnings, Michael Gordon and Shelby Keiser
2. Documentation Requirements for Educational Accommodations: An Administrator's View, Joan M. McGuire
3. Documentation Requirements for Test Accommodations: An Administrator's View, Shelby Keiser
4. The Americans with Disabilities Act: Legal Requirements for Clinical Evaluations, James G. Frierson
5. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Michael Gordon and Kevin R. Murphy
6. Language Based Learning Disabilities, Barbara J. Lorry
7. Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Lauren Wylonis and Edward Schweizer
8. Physical Disorders, Stanley Wainapel
9. Visual Disorders, Dysfunctions, and Disabilities, David A. Damari
10. Last Words, Michael Gordon and Shelby Keiser
Appendix A. The AHEAD guidelines for Learning Disabilities
Appendix B. Consortium Guidelines for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Gordon, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and Director of the ADHD Program at SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse, NY. His many publications include How to Operate an ADHD Clinic or Subspecialty Practice (GSI Publications, 1995).

Shelby Keiser, MS, is manager of the Office of Test Accommodations at the National Board of Medical Examiners. She is a member of the AHEAD Ad Hoc Committee on Documentation of Learning Disorders and the Consortium on Documentation of ADHD, and has served as a consultant in the diagnosis and remediation of reading and learning disabilities.