Lecture: Students with Intellectual Disabilities

You are cordially invited to attend the following presentation.

"Supporting Students with Intellectual Disabilities at IUB: Opportunities and Challenges"
Presented by Dr. Linda Duncan, Anderson University Wednesday, February 17 Noon to 1:00 p.m.
IMU - Oak Room

The guest presenter will be Dr. Linda Duncan from Anderson University's Department of Special Education. She will discuss recent amendments to the Higher Education Act and the opportunities it presents to students with intellectual disabilities to attend institutions of higher education. She will highlight growth in university programs across the country, and share some of their programming ideas, including emerging programs in Indiana. She will also share ideas for ways to support the students as they enter campus life, academically, socially, and vocationally.

Linda Duncan is a professor in the Department of Special Education at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana. She has been a special education teacher in the public schools, and before her entry into higher education, served nearly 15 years as Director of Special Education in the Carmel Schools and several other of Indiana's special education cooperatives. She has been successful in encouraging development of a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities at Anderson University, and hopes to identify funding to enroll its first students in the coming year.

Bring your questions and concerns and join us for this timely and relevant discussion.

Requests for Accommodations
If you plan to attend this session and require a sign language interpreter, real time captioning, assistive listening system, another auxiliary aid or information in alternate format, please contact Alice Voigt, Accessibility Specialist, at the National Center on Accessibility, ajvoigt@indiana.edu, (812) 856-4422 (voice) or (812) 856-4421 (tty).

Accessible University is a monthly series of presentations sponsored by the IUB Disability Roundtable. The purpose of the series is to educate the university community about accessibility issues and methodologies to create a more accessible university environment fully inclusive of students, faculty, staff, and visitors with disabilities.

The Accessible University series is a collaborative activity of IUB’s Disability Roundtable, coordinated by Vicki Pappas of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Alice Voigt of the National Center on Accessibility. For further information about the Accessible University series or the Disability Roundtable, please feel free to contact Vicki (cpps@indiana.edu) or Alice (ajvoigt@indiana.edu).