Research into autistic students and post-secondary education yields insight into how institutions and faculty can foster more welcoming spaces, and tips for students navigating campuses.
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Declining interest in the teacher profession and recent Trump administration budget cuts pose challenges to developing a diverse educator workforce.
Issues included poor wheelchair access in living spaces, inaccessible lecture theatres and broken lifts.
Capturing the experiences of students who are deaf or hard of hearing is important so schools can address fatigue related to listening and communicating efforts.
Pairing disability counsellors with post-secondary instructors to help them design classes is one way colleges and universities can improve their efforts to support students with disabilities.
Despite a nearly 50% increase in the proportion of 25-to-34-year olds with a degree since 2008, the percentage of university students from under-represented equity groups has hardly changed.
Analysis shows most suspensions in SA in 2019 were given to Indigenous students with a disability, followed by children with a disability living in care. These children need support, not dismissal.
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Senior Lecturer in Additional Learning Needs, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor, Health and Human Services, MacEwan University
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Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor and Higher Education Researcher, Charles Sturt University
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Professor in Psychology, Macquarie University
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Principal Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Special Education, Boston University
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Associate professor of edcuational leadershiop and policy analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor of Special Education, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Calgary