Course Instructions for Web Resources

UNST 421 Capstone: Learning From and About Persons with Disabilities, and
SPED 199/460/560 Outdoor Education/Recreation for Persons with Disabilities

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How to use these websites for course assignments

We’d like your suggestions and feedback for web resources

Who are “Persons with Disabilities”?

Website resource pages:

Section 1: Persons with disabilities and society

Section 2: Persons with significant disabilities and their families

Section 3: Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome)

Section 4: How do my academic/career interests intersect with disability issues?

How to use these websites for course assignments

1. First, scan the entire list of websites, there is a wide range of topics to explore.
2. Then visit a few websites that interest you and select two for more in-depth reading. 
3. For each of the two websites, seek out and read information that you find to be important and that you would like to share with other students and your supervisors during discussions at camp.
4. Print out a few pages from the websites that will help you share the information during the discussions. Be selective, you needn’t print out all that is available at the site.
5. Write the names of the two websites in your take home exam.
6. Bring the web pages to camp.  

Keep in mind that after your two weeks at camp, your final assignment is a brief reflection paper. In that paper you will connect what you learned about persons with disabilities from the websites, the discussions, and the experience of being a counselor.

Students: Be sure to follow all instructions in your Counselor & Staff Handbook before your camp session. That includes reading the handbook, completing the take home exam, and bringing the handbook, exam, and the pages from the two websites to camp.

We’d like your suggestions and feedback for course web resources

This is an evolving list of web resources about persons with disabilities. We welcome your suggestions for changes or additions to the list. If you know of a website with information that links your academic and career interests with the need/issues of persons with disabilities, please share it. We ask that you put the words “website suggestions” in the title of your email. Email your suggestions to Ann Fullerton. Thank-you.

Who are “Persons with Disabilities”?

The words, “persons with disabilities” refers to a wide array of individuals. Many of these  websites address the issues and concerns of this broad array of persons with disabilities in society. 

Most but not all of our camper participants are described as persons with significant disabilities, defined as persons who need some form of intensive and daily support for everyday living. Many camper participants would also be described as persons with developmental disabilities, or persons who have been disabled from birth or early childhood. Some of the websites focus specifically on persons with significant disabilities or developmental disabilities and their families.

The purpose of this course is to learn firsthand about persons with significant disabilities as a counselor at camp and to become more aware of the broader range of issues and experiences of all persons with disabilities through exploring these websites and discussions during your two weeks at camp.