ERIC Number: EJ1381769
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Mar
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0271-0560
EISSN: EISSN-1536-0741
"Understand Where You're Coming From": Positionality and Higher Education Disability Resources
New Directions for Higher Education, n201-202 p45-62 Spr-Sum 2023
Despite their significant influence on the experiences of disabled college students, disability resource professionals are provided limited guidance on how to carry out the functions of their role. As a result, during the accommodations process, disability resource professionals generally rely on their instincts and "gut" reactions when responding to accommodation requests after quickly processing information from a student's self-report and relevant medical documentation. However, hidden within these quick decisions are disability resource professionals' positionalities--or frameworks for considering the world--that have an innate influence on the outcome of accommodation decisions and, ultimately, disabled students' access to higher education. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore disability resource professionals' views on positionality in the context of higher education disability resources and its relationship to accommodation decision-making. After a review of findings from interviews with 13 disability resource professionals, the authors conclude with recommendations for higher education disability resources and directions for future research.
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Student Personnel Workers, Student Personnel Services, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Decision Making, Access to Education, Power Structure
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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