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Higher Education for All (Including Those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities)
Higher Education for All (Including Those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities)
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Feb 29, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Tamara (Tami) Shetron shares a vision of higher education for all (including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities on episode 507 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
My background is in a field called developmental education, which is some people used to call it remedial education, but the term evolved into developmental because remedial is the idea of fixing things, whereas developmental follows more the natural human cycle of growing and developing across the lifespan.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron
Everyone can learn.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron
What makes these programs different from a normal, typical college experience is they are designed to help students get employment.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron
Resources
Texas State University’s Bobcat RISE Program
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act
National Core Indicators (NCI) from Think College
Quotes from the episode
My background is in a field called developmental education, which is some people used to call it remedial education, but the term evolved into developmental because remedial is the idea of fixing things, whereas developmental follows more the natural human cycle of growing and developing across the lifespan.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron
Everyone can learn.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron
What makes these programs different from a normal, typical college experience is they are designed to help students get employment.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron
Resources
Texas State University’s Bobcat RISE Program
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act
National Core Indicators (NCI) from Think College
Released:
Feb 29, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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