The Disability Concerns Knowledge Community addresses issues of equal access & equal opportunity in higher education.

 Highlighted Resources

• NEW issue of Perspectives focused on speech to text services (produced by the Postsectondary Education Programs Newtork-PEPNET) is available for download
• Free Webinar through EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) Captioning Educational Material on a Large Scale: Thur. Nov 20 at 2 Eastern

Hot topics include:

• Policy Developments
• Textbook and Distance Education Accessibility
• Universal Design Approaches
• Veterans on Campus - see articles below

For those who are interested in issues related to veteran's on campus, you may want to read the titled "Get Ready for Incoming Wave of Student Veterans with Disabilities" from the newsletter Disability Compliance and Higher Education.

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For another great article on student-veterans check out the article in the NASPA Journal
DiRamio, D. , Ackerman, R. , Mitchell, R. L. (2008). From Combat to Campus: Voices of Student-Veterans. NASPA Journal, 45(1), Art. 5. Retrieved May 15, 2008, from http://publications.naspa.org/naspajournal/vol45/iss1/art5.