About SSWD

1. What You Absolutely Need to Know About Services for Students With Disabilities

Ann Satkowiak
Pellissippi State Technical Community College

2. Topics to Be Covered

• Services for Students with Disabilities Contact Information
• College policies
• SSWD responsibilities
• Faculty responsibilities
• Student responsibilities
• Essential Points
• Faculty Resources
• Summary

3. Contact SSWD Staff

• Ann Satkowiak - Director, asatkowiak@pstcc.edu, Goins 127, 539-7153
• Sarah McMurray - Coordinator, semcmurray@pstcc.edu, Goins 125, 539-7091
• Don Amos - Coordinator/Technology, dwamos@pstcc.edu, Goins 131, 694 -6751
• Cynthia Andresen - Coordinator/Transition and Outreach , crandresent@pstcc.edu, Goins 126 539-7249
• Michele DeFelice - Coordinator/Lead Interpreter, mfdefelice@pstcc.edu, Goins 131d, 865-694-6434

4. College Policies on Disabilities

• Services for Students with Disabilities Office: Goins 125, 126, 127, 131, 131-D
• Phones: 539-7153, 539-7091, 694-6751, 539-7249, 694-6434
• Fax Number: 539-7218
• Site campuses by appointment (phone assistance always available)
• SSWD Website: http://www.pstcc.edu/departments/swd/index.html
• Web Accessible Policies: http://www.pstcc.edu/misc/ppm/04-07-00.htm

5. SSWD Office Responsibilities

• Inform students of services and procedure for disclosure of disability information
• Develop accommodation plans for classroom modifications
• Arrange appropriate services
• Interpreters
• Scribes
• Tutors for Vocational Rehabilitation clients

6. SSWD Office Responsibilities

• Assist with adaptive equipment
• Software at accessible computer stations
• CCTV (enlarger in library), etc.
• Serve as liaison for students and faculty/agencies
• Advocate for students with disabilities

7. SSWD Office Responsibilities

• Maintain confidential records
• Provide faculty information and disability awareness
• Provide community resource information

8. Faculty Responsibilities

• Provide reasonable accommodations as recommended by SSWD office using standard PSTCC accommodation plan form
• Meet with student to discuss accommodations
• Consult with SSWD for clarifications of accommodations or other disability issues

9. Faculty Responsibilities

• Maintain confidentiality of student requests
• Refer students to SSWD who request accommodations without an accommodation plan
• Consult with SSWD regarding student inappropriate behavior

10. Faculty Responsibilities

• Consult with SSWD or ADA coordinator if any outside agency or attorney contacts you regarding a student with a disability
• Provide equal treatment of students with disabilities

11. Student Responsibilities

• Self-identify to SSWD if requesting services or accommodations
• Provide appropriate documentation of disability to SSWD
• Meet with SSWD staff each semester accommodations are needed

12. Student Responsibilities

• Provide copy of accommodation plan to professors and discuss accommodations with professors
• Notify SSWD immediately of any problems with accommodation request
• Comply with all PSTCC disciplinary rules and policies

13. Essential Points for Faculty

• Require current accommodation plans to receive accommodations
• Require that students meet disciplinary standards of the college
• Require that students meet entry level requirements of the courses as stated in the course syllabi
• Scenario 1:
  Student with obvious disability and attendant asks for untimed tests in the testing center. She doesn't have an accommodation plan, but it is obvious to you that she needs accommodations. What do you do?
• Scenario 2:
  Student disrupts class often by blurting out answers even when you have reminded her that she must wait to be called upon; she also makes inappropriate sexual remarks to other students during class. She has brought you an accommodation plan requesting that she be allowed time and one half on tests so you know she has a disability. Because of this you assume that she has special accommodations for her behavior in the classroom as well, what do you do?

14. When to contact SSWD

• Contact SSWD staff for any disability-related concerns (including but not limited to):
• Unusual student requests
• Disruptive behavior by students with disabilities
• Anything that doesn't "feel or sound right"

15. Visit the Faculty Room

• Online at www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/
• University of Washington Do-It Project
• Learn how to maximize education opportunities for postsecondary students with disabilities
• Explore accommodation strategies
• Learn about legal issues
• Find professional development materials
• Link to resources

16. Summary

• Contact SSWD with ANY questions or concerns
• Document, document, document
• Insist on current accommodation plans before accommodating students

17. Learning Opportunity

• Please follow the address below to a short (5 question) open book, open note quiz.
• http://www.pstcc.edu/departments/swd/media/about/about_quiz.html
• This presentation/quiz is also provided on SSWD's faculty page: http://www.pstcc.edu/departments/swd/faculty.html
• Thank you for your participation!