In future issues of Accessibility Services News, we will share characteristics of these disabilities and provide helpful information for teaching or providing services to students with disabilities. The reader may find that these tips are useful with all students or participants. Go to top of this page Share With You . Go to top of this page Notes for Instructors . The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires postsecondary educational institutions to inform students with disabilities of their right to equal opportunity in education and the availability of accommodations.
Most institutions require a statement on all syllabi regarding request for accommodations.
Go to top of this page Teaching Tips . This fall, Central will have six students who are blind and eight students who are legally blind or have other visual disabilities. Etiquette with guide dogs requires that, when a dog is working, we must have permission before petting the dog. The handler may give permission if it is appropriate. Computer technology at OAS and in the Dockery computer lab has been a major benefit to our students who are blind.