All members of a community benefit from the diversity that studentswith disabilities bring to a campus, and all campus constituentshave an obligation to serve their diverse students. This volumeprovides the preparation and knowledge your campus needs to meetthe growing populations of students with disabilities.
Editor Marianne S. Huger, assistant dean of students at AmericanUniversity, and contributing authors provide practitioners andfaculty members with guidance concerning not just accommodating butincluding students in the fabric of an institution. They alsoprovide specific guidance on four issues that are current paramountin service students with disabilities: tranistion, online learning,Education-Abroad, and psychiatric disabilties. Also included is anexploration of the legal framework for fostering the increasedintegration of students with disabilities.
This is the 134th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Student Services. Anindispensable resource for vice presidents of student affairs,deans of students, student counselors, and other student servicesprofessionals, New Directions for Student Servicesoffers guidelines and programs for aiding students in their totaldevelopment: emotional, social, physical, and intellectual.