Accommodations in Higher Education under the Americans with Disabilities Act » (1st Edition)

Michael Gordon, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and Director of the ADHD Program at SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse, NY. His many publications include How to Operate an ADHD Clinic or Subspecialty Practice (GSI Publications, 1995).

Shelby Keiser, MS, is manager of the Office of Test Accommodations at the National Board of Medical Examiners. She is a member of the AHEAD Ad Hoc Committee on Documentation of Learning Disorders and the Consortium on Documentation of ADHD, and has served as a consultant in the diagnosis and remediation of reading and learning disabilities.

This practical manual offers essential information and guidance for anyone involved with ADA issues in higher education settings. Fundamental principles and actual clinical and administrative procedures are outlined for evaluating, documenting, and accommodating a wide range of mental and physical impairments. Contributors draw upon extensive hands-on experience with managing ADA issues. Throughout, chapters provide helpful diagnostic roadmaps, sample reports, and resource listings. Cutting through the morass of confusion surrounding current disability mandates, this book steers clear of political and ideological debates. Its balanced coverage and straightforward approach help it fill a vital need for mental health clinicians, learning disabilities and rehabilitation specialists, administrators in postsecondary institutions and testing organizations, and legal professionals.

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Ten contributors<-->including an attorney; manager of the Office of Test Accommodation, the National Board of Medical Examiners; and professors of psychiatry and rehabilitation medicine<-->offer a wide lens on the implementation and colliding agendas related to providing reasonable accommodations under Public Law 101-336, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The primary focus is on documentation required for ADA claims in higher education, the majority of which are based on learning and psychiatric disorders rather than physical disabilities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.