Resource Category: Inclusive practice and universal design

AT Select

Assistive Technology (AT) is any technology that supports individuals with disabilities to complete tasks and activities independently. AT Select provides guides and comprehensive reviews to assist in decision-making.

The Woman Who Changed Her Brain

Author: Barbara Arrowsmith-Young Arrowsmith-Young is the creator of one of the first practical applications of the principles of neuroplasticity to the treatment of learning disorders. Her program is implemented in 54 schools internationally. Watch Video

Supporting students with disabilities

The intent of this website is to provide helpful information for instructors in understanding how a wide range of disabilities impact students’ learning and assessment environments. The goal of this website is to better equip instructors to support students with disabilities and to identify the institution support entities that provide accommodation assistance to both students and instructors.

Liberatory Design: Mindsets and Modes to Design for Equity

Liberatory Design is a creative problem-solving approach and practice that centers equity and supports us to design for liberation. It is made up of mindsets and modes. Mindsets invoke stances and values to ground and focus our design practice, and modes provide process guidance for our design practice.

Ableism/Language

Author: Lydia X.Z. Brown This resource provides definitions of words and why they are ableist. As noted on the website, the list “has been compiled and changed over time with input from many different disabled people, people with disabilities, self-advocates, d/Deaf and hard of hearing people, people with chronic illnesses, sick people, mad people, neurodivergent […]

Thank you for taking the time to join our LSAC community today. Before we begin, we would like to pause to intentionally express our gratitude for the land we are on today and to all the Indigenous Peoples past, present and future that have and continue to be stewards of these lands. We recognize that moving forward we are mutually responsible for the caretaking and preservation of this land for future generations.

We commit to co-creating an accountable space. In our LSAC community, we are committed to creating an accountable space where we welcome individual growth, learning, and unlearning. In this space, we recognize and gently remind one another that we are all tender humans with our own stories and experiences, both positive and negative. We aim to lead with kindness, openness, and patience as we identify and break down barriers to create a safer space for us all. 

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