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The University of Kansas recently created a new position on
their campus to better accommodate people with disabilities. Jamie Simpson took
on her new position as the director of Accessibility and ADA (Americans with
Disabilities Act) Education this past week.
The position will entail coordinating campus-wide activities
to promote the ADA and help spread awareness. She will also help professors to
better accommodate students with disabilities on a more personal level by
suggesting different ways to work with each student based on their disability. She
will be able to give the professors strategies and techniques to help the
individual with the disability have the best education as possible.
The program and position was created to provide students
with disabilities equal opportunity and equal access on campus. Many people
think that students with disabilities are given more help and assistance then
necessary but that isn’t the case. What many people don’t understand is that
the accommodations made are to make the playing ground equal, not to make
things easier in general.
Most people are unaware of how many people have disabilities
because many of them are non-obvious. Of the 700 registered students, about 85%
of them have non-obvious disabilities. These include learning disabilities,
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), psychiatric, health or medical
issues. The other 15% of students with disabilities are classified under have
mobile disabilities.
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