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<div>Vanessa asks:</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Would it be allowable for an institution to write in reports that they had X number of students with Y and Z types of disabilities and requests for accommodations of types A,
B, C within Program F? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">For example, perhaps a report might state that the underwater basket weaving program had 10 students with learning disabilities who are allowed extra time on tests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">If the individual students are not identified, is the institution allowed to report on the statistics related to the number and type of disabilities and the types of accommodations
used?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p><i>Nothing in the ADA or Section 504 of the Rehab Act prohibit reporting. If the goal is resource planning (say space and proctoring resources for accommodated testing) it would
be a good thing. If it were used to decide to change the program standards or policies because we have "too many of those students"; you might have a problem. We use aggregated data on race, gender, .... its not the data but what you do with it</i>. </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Is it allowable to send an instructor a letter indicating that a student with X type of disability will be in his/her course next semester and that the instructor is strongly
advised to work with the accessibility team to make the course content accessible so it meets the needs for the student with disabilities as well as benefits all students in the class?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">For example, a student may need an accommodation related to captioning an instructor-generated video or ensuring the instructor-created Word/PDF documents are accessible via screen-reader.
Can we help the instructor make captioned videos or digitally accessible documents available for the entire class, including the student who needs them as an accommodation? Does this somehow violate any rules or student rights, especially if there are no
copyright concerns? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p><i>Without spending time on why waiting until you have an identified need is not a good idea. The only thing wrong with your hypothetical is "strongly advising" the instructor
to do this rather than requiring it </i></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Is the group that helps students identify accommodations allowed to tell the course accessibility people that a certain course has an un-named student with X type of disability
so that this team can reach out to the instructor to make the course more accessible? (What information, if any, can the student disability team share with the course accessibility team?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><i>Yes, again it can be done well or poorly.</i> </span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Is it acceptable for a report to indicate how the accessibility remediation efforts related to the types of disabilities common at the institution?
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Could an institution say Program Z focused on X or Y accessibility remediations because they knew we had students with A or B disabilities? (The Underwater Basket-weaving program
focused first on improving color contrast, font, and size in their documents because they knew they had students with color vision deficiency and low vision enrolled in the program.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><i>Similar to my answer above but I am not what useful purpose the information above serves</i> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If there are resources that explain this sort of stuff in a brief and clear manner, please let me know where I should look.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Try the AHEAD conference this summer. </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Vanessa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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