<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Amanda Lacy</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:lacy925@gmail.com">lacy925@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 4:12 PM<br>Subject: Re: [AccessSTEM] This week in accessibility<br>To: AccessSTEM Team participants <<a href="mailto:accessstem@u.washington.edu">accessstem@u.washington.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="line-break:after-white-space">I liked the article on remote options. I can strongly relate to the autistic student in the loud lecture hall. I'm blind, as well as hypersensitive, and I literally don't understand how it's physically possible to learn at all in a room with 100+ students making noise and talking, especially when they break out into groups and everyone is talking. How can you possibly pick out a single individual? I just hear noise. I sometimes wonder if everyone else is just pretending that they're working in these nonfunctional spaces.<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 12, 2023, at 2:01 PM, <a href="mailto:blaser@uw.edu" target="_blank">blaser@uw.edu</a> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all - </div><div><br></div><div>Here's some of what I read *last* week.  :)</div><div><br></div><div>Brianna</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span id="m_5896975424123754936gmail-docs-internal-guid-35dc8f79-7fff-0599-711a-47f39a2d4cb0"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Articles and reports</span></div><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2023/06/06/how-prospective-students-value-colleges-mental" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Reputation, Affordability, Location and… Mental Health?</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Inside Higher Ed) Marcus Hotaling, director of Union College’s Eppler-Wolff Counseling Center and president of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, toured campuses this year with his precollege daughter and noticed something interesting. Tour guides, he recalls, “were actively talking about counseling services, letting people know of the services and sessions” available to students.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2023/06/07/how-colleges-both-help-and-hurt-student-mental" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Report: Colleges Help, and Hurt, Student Mental Health</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Inside Higher Ed) College students face a wide range of challenges in their mental health, and institutions may be compounding the problem. A May report commissioned by the educational consultant group College Futures Foundation details the structures of higher education that can impact the mental well-being of its learners, both positively and negatively.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/diversity/2023/06/06/illinois-lawmakers-urge-neurodiversity-inclusion-higher-ed" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Recognizing an ‘Untapped Resource’</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Inside Higher Ed) The Illinois General Assembly recently passed a resolution encouraging colleges and universities to recognize the strengths of neurodiverse students and employees and better accommodate their needs. It also calls on these institutions to adopt an inclusion statement that “embraces the fact that every student is different and should be encouraged to reach their full potential.”</span></h1></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/more-students-want-virtual-learning-options-heres-where-the-debate-stands?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">More Students Want Virtual-Learning Options. Here’s Where the Debate Stands.</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Concentrating in large lecture halls has always been a challenge for Harper Chambers, a rising senior studying neuroscience at Princeton University. That’s because Chambers has autism, which he said makes him extra sensitive to light and noise. But when Chambers got a concussion last fall, his “acute” sensitivity temporarily became even more severe.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://themindhears.org/2023/06/08/equity-diversity-and-inclusion-when-communication-all-changed/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: When communication all changed</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (The Mind Hears) On Wednesday March 11, 2020, the governor of New York announced that all in-person classes were to be suspended at my university until the end of the semester. As the news spread, my colleagues speculated that the shutdown might last a few weeks or months. To me it felt more significant, not unlike the aftermath of 9/11 when we realized that the world had irrevocably changed. As a virologist, I had some idea about what was to come; as a deaf individual, I did not fully comprehend what this would entail for me.</span></div></li></ul><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Events and Opportunities</span></div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://autisticadvocacy.org/2023/06/now-hiring-join-the-asan-team/?emci=eba6444c-7c04-ee11-907c-00224832eb73&emdi=4ee875c4-a404-ee11-907c-00224832eb73&ceid=27125712&fbclid=IwAR2Wr2RLCZiHmPBsYCSy4DKdDfxDRMBlOZuuC85d8yoWHoBL0tyzrbX04-Y" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Now hiring – join the ASAN team!</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Autistic Self Advocacy Network) ASAN is hiring for a Communications Associate position. Consider becoming a part of the team and helping us reach our grassroots community! The Communications Associate will take the lead on communicating effectively about ASAN’s work, events, and publications. They will also take an active role in planning events including Day of Mourning and ACI. They will work closely with ASAN’s Deputy Director of Operations. The job is a salaried position paying $57,000/year with comprehensive health insurance and up to 5 weeks of paid time off per year. </span></div></li></ul></font></span></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Brianna Blaser, Ph.D. (she/her)<br>University of Washington, DO-IT<br>
<a href="http://washington.edu/doit" target="_blank">washington.edu/doit</a><br>
<div>206-221-4163 |  <a href="mailto:blaser@uw.edu" target="_blank">blaser@uw.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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