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Welcome to week seven.
I'm Professor Greg Long,
and our topic today is a continuation from last week.
We're talking about education and disability.
Last week we talked about the issues that are most relevant
early intervention through high school.
Today's lesson is really going to focus
exclusively on post-secondary.
So, basically anything that comes after high school.
It could be vocational training programs.
But we often times
more commonly think about it as colleges and universities.
Before we get started today, though,
we'll have our etiquette question.
And this is one that's of particular significance
within the college setting.
And the etiquette question is this:
As a staff or a faculty member, in your role as a teacher,
is it all right to ask a student to disclose
the nature of his or her disability?
Now, as you think about that,
I've got a video that I'm going to show you.
One of the interesting things about today's lecture
material and segments and video support
is that many of these things have arisen from work that
was done at the university, Northern Illinois University,
last summer and this past fall in the creation
of a disability and accessibility tutorial
for faculty and staff.
One of the issues in creating that was that we got
a lot of student input,
students with disabilities and their allies.
We had others involved to give us input,
so we created a tutorial.
But also recognizing a lot of people would not find reading
a 20-plus page tutorial very exciting, we paired
with students in the Department of Communications
under the direction of Dr. Laura Vazquez,
and we created a series of videos that were
also meant to support different aspects of the tutorial.
So those videos, as well as the tutorial itself,
are linked to this lesson and will be referenced.
I hope you enjoy them. And with that,
we'll look at the first video called: Nobody's Business
that hits that disability etiquette question
we just asked, can you ask students to disclose.
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>>Professor Long: So in summary for this first segment,
and hopefully as you most clearly saw in that video,
while a teacher, professor may have a desire to know
and may be well intentioned in trying
to know about a student's disability,
it really is the student's right to determine
whether she or he wants to share the specifics.
And that is something
that is incredibly important for us to remember.
So as we end this particular segment,
I'd like to move on to the next segment where we really
talk about what are some of the benefits and laws
and how often do we see people
with disabilities in college settings.