Sample Presentations
Affiliate Professor, College of Education
Founder and Director, DO-IT Center and UW Access Technology Center
Instructor/Advisor, Distance Learning
Current projects include AccessSTEM, AccessDL, AccessComputing, RDE Collaborative Dissemination, and the Center for Universal Design in Education
UW Information Technology, Box 354842
Seattle, WA 98195-4842
206-543-0622
206-221-4171 (FAX)
sherylb@uw.edu
https://sites.uw.edu/sherylb/
20 Tips for Making Online Learning Opportunities Accessible to Students with Disabilities
Audience: Instructors and designers of online courses
Description: Many online teaching tools and practices inadvertently make opportunities inaccessible to students with certain types of disabilities. Learn about potential barriers to learning opportunities, and how instructional practices, that are often simple for instructors to implement, can ensure that a course is welcoming and accessible to all students.
Example of presentation: 20 Tips for Instructors About Making Online Learning Courses Accessible
20 Tips for Moving Your Campus Services to Accessible Online Alternatives
Audience: Postsecondary ]administrators working to convert to online alternatives and student service support staff
Description: With the pandemic, service units on postsecondary campuses have scrambled to convert their on-site services to acceptable options online. One issue many have neglected is the need to ensure that the resulting services are accessible to students with disabilities. This presentation shares twenty tips that leaders can take to work toward the development of online services for students with disabilities that minimize the need for accommodations.
Universal Design of Online Learning Programs
Audiences: Online learning program administrators
Description: Learn how universal design principles, guidelines, and performance indicators can be applied to policies and practices of online learning programs in order to assure that courses are accessible to all students, including those with disabilities.
Making Student Services Accessible to All Students Through the Application of Universal Design
Audiences: Precollege and postsecondary student service staff and administrators
Description: Learn barriers people with disabilities face in pursuing academic studies and careers, and how universal design strategies can make career services, tutoring/learning centers, registration offices, housing and food services, and other student services accessible to all students.
Assistive Technology, Universal Design, and the Digital Divides
Audience: Information technology support staff
Description: Learn how the inaccessible design of information technology (IT) results in the “second digital divide” for people with disabilities and how the accessible design of IT can create a level playing field in education and employment.
Managing Accessible Technology Support Services
Audience: Precollege and postsecondary support staff and administrators
Description: Learn how to offer computing services on your campus that are fully accessible to all instructors and students. Topics discussed include the accessible design of web pages, educational software, and computing labs and services.
The Role of Technology in Improving Career Outcomes for Individuals with Disabilities
Audience: Precollege and postsecondary educators
Description: Learn barriers people with disabilities face in pursuing careers and strategies to increase their success in challenging fields.
Accessible IT Requirements: Lessons Learned From US Campuses Who Received Civil Rights Complaints
Audiences: Postsecondary instructors and administrators
Description: Learn how more than twenty postsecondary institutions have responded to civil rights complaints that their IT was not fully accessible to faculty, students, staff, and visitors with disabilities. How can other campuses use the resolutions to guide practices on their own campuses.
Inclusive Excellence: Let’s Talk About “Inclusive”
Audiences: Educators, administrators, and students
Description: How can we reach the day when “excellence” ALWAYS implies “inclusiveness?” What lessons learned from various disciplines can be applied more broadly to ensure an inclusive campus? What can you do as an individual and what can campus units and the institution do to make inclusive excellence a reality?
How the Whole Campus Benefits When Disability Is Addressed as a Diversity Issue
Audiences: Educators and administrators
Description: How are disability and other diversity efforts similar and different? How can universal design and other inclusive practices result in more welcoming, accessible, and usable offerings for everyone? What resources are available to support this approach?
Universal Design in Education
Audiences: Educators and administrators
Description: Learn how universal design principles, guidelines, and performance indicators can be applied to instruction, information technology, physical spaces, and student services for the purpose of making educational products and environments accessible to all students, including those with disabilities.
Universal Design of Instruction
Audiences: Precollege and/or postsecondary instructors
Description: Learn how universal design principles, guidelines, and performance indicators can be applied to curriculum and instruction in order to make all learning activities accessible to all students, including those with disabilities.
Encouraging Professors to Teach Accessible/Universal Design in Their Computing and Engineering Courses
Audiences: Computing and engineering professors
Description: IT and other companies who wish to design products that are accessible to all potential consumers complain that they cannot find enough applicants who understand how to design products that are accessible to consumers with a broad range of abilities. Learn how to encourage faculty members to help students develop the skills they need to fill these positions.
Increasing the Participation of People with Disabilities in STEM Careers
Audiences: Precollege and postsecondary instructors and administrators
Description: Learn barriers people with disabilities face in pursuing academic studies and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and strategies to assure their full inclusion in these challenging fields.
Directing Accessible Technology Support Services
Audience: Precollege and postsecondary support staff and administrators
Description: Learn how to offer computing services on your campus that are fully accessible to all instructors and students. Topics discussed include the accessible design of web pages, educational software, and computing labs and services.
College, Careers, Independent Living, and Leadership: What You Can Do Now to Prepare for Success
Audience: High school students with disabilities and their parents, teachers, and other supporters
Description: Learn how you can develop self-determination skills, use technology, gain mentor and peer support, and apply specific strategies that lead to success in college, careers, and independent living as well as position yourself as a leader. Learn how parents, teachers, and other supporters can help you in this process.
U.S. Practices in Preparing Students with Disabilities for College and Careers
Audience: International
Description: Learn about challenges students with disabilities face in pursuing postsecondary education, employment, and social activities; evidence-based practices for addressing these challenges; and how the DO-IT Center employs these practices. Explore how Japan and other countries have adapted and applied similar activities.