ARC is Hosting Spring 2023 AHEAD Webinar Series

Announced on: Friday, Feb. 17, 2023

Accessibility Resource Center (ARC) is excited to host another series of engaging, thought-provoking webinars offered through the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD).

The Spring 2023 Webinar Series was created to address current issues that face all institution types. Some sessions will address early career guidance. Other sessions were designed to provide deeper responses to recurring questions that arise on the AHEAD Community discussion boards and to address ongoing desires for trainings that connect disability identities to other intersectional identities and experiences. Content experts on particular disability types will offer insight on how professionals at any level can improve institutional responses to particular student needs.

The first session is: Perspectives on Serving Students with Chronic Illness, Presenter Lynn Fuentes, MS, JD, PhD, CEO, Transformation Teaching.

Tuesday, February 21, 10-11:30 a.m.

Zoom webinar ID#: 851 8993 6715
Passcode: dxam63_y3g

"Students with a chronic illness disability experience many barriers that do not always match up with traditional disability accommodations. As a result, such students often receive insufficient supports. Because their needs are not well understood by administrators, faculty, and other students, rejection, skepticism, and outright disbelief are also not uncommon. Assessing such students' needs and ensuring that appropriate accommodations are available and carried out can be a challenge for disability specialists and others who work with these students. In this webinar, we will cover some common barriers and possible accommodations, and also consider how to interact with different viewpoints on campus regarding whether and how to implement them."

For a full list of all sessions, dates, and live webinar IDs and passcodes, visit ARC's Spring 2023 AHEAD Webinar Series website. Once available, presentation materials and session recordings will be added.

Please contact Mary Cox in ARC at mccox@csuchico.edu or 530-898-5959 for any questions or issues connecting to a webinar.