Accommodations in Higher Education under the Americans with Disabilities Act

A No-Nonsense Guide for Clinicians, Educators, Administrators, and Lawyers

Edited by Michael Gordon and Shelby Keiser

Paperback
Paperback
February 15, 2000
ISBN 9781572303232
Price: $35.00
236 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
Copyright Date: 1998
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This practical manual offers essential information and guidance for anyone involved with ADA issues in higher education settings. Fundamental principles and actual clinical and administrative procedures are outlined for evaluating, documenting, and accommodating a wide range of mental and physical impairments. Contributors draw upon extensive hands-on experience with managing ADA issues. Throughout, chapters provide helpful diagnostic roadmaps, sample reports, and resource listings. Cutting through the morass of confusion surrounding current disability mandates, this book steers clear of political and ideological debates. Its balanced coverage and straightforward approach help it fill a vital need for mental health clinicians, learning disabilities and rehabilitation specialists, administrators in postsecondary institutions and testing organizations, and legal professionals.