This academic year marks the 10th anniversary for the development of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Position Statement on Students with Disabilities, which were published in May of 2004. The IAGD would like to begin a conversation on effectiveness of the position statement since it was created, and...
ED Awards Funding to Help Individuals With Disabilities Purchase Assistive Technology
The U.S. Department of Education announced yesterday the award of $1.9 million in grants to organizations in California, Missouri and Washington to help individuals with disabilities purchase the assistive technology they need. Under the Assistive Technology Alternative Financing Program, the funds will be used to help people with disabilities...
Teaching How to Teach
A blind PhD student teaches others how to make their classrooms more inclusive. Story by Erik Potter Due to a degenerative retinal condition, Gina Ceylan’s vision had been slipping slowly — sometimes quickly — since childhood. Then, one morning in the middle of her master’s program in geology at...
Attending GSA? Please Let Us Know.
Calling all members of the IAGD network! We would like to know how many of you are attending the 2013 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, October 27-30. Please follow this link to simply answer yes you are attending, or no you are not. If you are attending and...
