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Interview with Amy Burks
“The more teachers we can get comfortable with technology…the more that they’re aware of screen readers, screen magnifiers, text-to-speech…the better prepared students will be who come to me later in life when they’re ready for college.” -- Amy Burks
Amy Burks is changing lives. She and her team are helping students with disabilities overcome serious handicaps to survive and thrive at a collegiate level.
Amy is the Adaptive Technologies Coordinator at Middle Tennessee State University located in the heart of Tennesssee. She is a technology integration specialist and extremely knowledgeable on the issues that disabled students face.
Using cutting-edge hardware and software, Amy and her staff are making a difference and going far beyond mere ADA compliance. In this interview, Amy describes...
- The bigger picture in services disabled students
- The "big 3" software packages that every disabled student should have access to
- Integration of technology campus-wide for this demographic
- A success story
- Exciting things on the horizon
Join us for this 29:00 minute interview by clicking the link below:
Towards a Better Understanding of Disabled Students
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s laid the foundation for the eventual passage of the The Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This legislation made discrimination due to disability unlawful.
In 1998, the Rehabilitation Act was amended by Congress to add Section 508 (29 U.S.C. § 794 (d) § 794d) which required government agencies to make their information technology accessible to people with disabilities.
The link below is to a paper I wrote during my masters coursework on the legal issues facing students with disabilities. Particularly noteworthy is a fairly exhaustive list of disablility services and web sites to add to your reference collection.
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