Assignment 3.3: Annotated Bibliography
Bargerhuff, Mary Ellen and Michele Wheatly. "Teaching with CLASS: Creating Laboratory Access for Science Students with Disabilities." The Journal of Teacher Education Division of the Council of Exceptional Children 27 (2004): 318–321. Document. 10 November 2013. <http://tes.sagepub.com/content/27/3/318.full.pdf+html>.
This article proposes a special program known as CLASS, a program specifically designed to help students with disability to actively engage and learn in science laboratory settings, as a solution to the problems that science students with disability face. Although it identifies the obstacles that students with disability face in accessing science labs and tries to solve these problems, the proposed solution may not be feasible in a larger scale and become limited to only few students. However, the information about the productivity and limitations of this special program could be useful in identifying current problems in many other special programs and serve as a model for designing other programs for students with disability.
Burgstahler, Sheryl. Making Science Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities. 2012. 28 October 2013. <http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/science_lab.html>.
This is a proposal that promotes re-designing the science laboratories in the principles of universal design that will allow many people with disabilities to access the labs. The author provides a very detailed lists of suggestions on what improvements can be made to make the labs accessible for people in different physical and mental conditions. The idea of replacing the lab equipment to that with a universal design could serve as one of the solutions to the inaccessibility of the labs but it may not be very practical, especially in monetary aspects. However, the ideas about universal design and recognition of the problems that people with different types of disabilities face will be useful in illuminating on the different ways in which the labs can be inaccessible.
Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Admissions – VCU Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. 2013. 28 October 2013. <http://www.sahp.vcu.edu/cls/admissions.html>.
This is a list of admission requirements that the VCU School of Allied Health Professions place on students with disability who desire to pursue education in clinical laboratory sciences. These lists of requirements are very specific and practical, but many of them seem to be setting a barrier for many people, especially those with disabilities. These standards may be analyzed to see why people set up such barriers that make many labs inaccessible to many people and how they can be changed to make labs more accessible.
Duerstock, Brad. "Students with disabilities put adaptive lab resources to test during summer program." Purdue News. West Lafayette, 24 June 2013. 25 October 2013. <http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q2/students-with-disabilities-put-adaptive-lab-resources-to-test-during-summer-program.html>.
This is an article that discusses how a group of college students made an attempt to make science labs accessible to other students with disabilities by instituting lab equipment that are adoptable to their conditions and other technologies that aid them in learning. This effort to make labs accessible to the students with disabilities show that people are still in the process of working on the inaccessibility of the labs and other opportunities involved in participating in science labs. In other words, there are still many possible ways in which people can make science labs more accessible.
Dutchen, Stephanie. Opening Up the Lab - September 2012 - Findings - Science Publication - National Institute of General Medical Sciences. 28 September 2012. 28 October 2013. <http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/findings/sept12/opening-up-the-lab.asp>.
This article shows how a student with disability was able to pursue his path as a physician and was able to make progress in the inaccessibility of the science labs in college by encouraging the re-designing of the lab settings and inventing accessible lab equipment. This shows how people with disabilities can make changes in the accessibility of the labs by themselves. I thought it was very interesting to see how the student with disability was able to overcome the barriers and obstacles in the labs and pursue his own goal in life.
ILAB. ILAB - Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind. n.d. 28 October 2013. <http://ilab.psu.edu/>.
This website show how the project known as ILAB associated with Research in Disabilities Education led to the foundation of Independence Science, which is an organization that produces lab equipment that is accessible to people with disabilities. This serves as an evidence that eliminating the physical barriers in the labs is applicable and that this could serve as a part of the solution to the inaccessibility of the science labs for many people. I thought that it was intersting to see how there are so many people focusing on eliminating the physical barriers in the accessibility of the labs yet so few working on the social barriers.
This article proposes a special program known as CLASS, a program specifically designed to help students with disability to actively engage and learn in science laboratory settings, as a solution to the problems that science students with disability face. Although it identifies the obstacles that students with disability face in accessing science labs and tries to solve these problems, the proposed solution may not be feasible in a larger scale and become limited to only few students. However, the information about the productivity and limitations of this special program could be useful in identifying current problems in many other special programs and serve as a model for designing other programs for students with disability.
Burgstahler, Sheryl. Making Science Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities. 2012. 28 October 2013. <http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/science_lab.html>.
This is a proposal that promotes re-designing the science laboratories in the principles of universal design that will allow many people with disabilities to access the labs. The author provides a very detailed lists of suggestions on what improvements can be made to make the labs accessible for people in different physical and mental conditions. The idea of replacing the lab equipment to that with a universal design could serve as one of the solutions to the inaccessibility of the labs but it may not be very practical, especially in monetary aspects. However, the ideas about universal design and recognition of the problems that people with different types of disabilities face will be useful in illuminating on the different ways in which the labs can be inaccessible.
Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Admissions – VCU Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. 2013. 28 October 2013. <http://www.sahp.vcu.edu/cls/admissions.html>.
This is a list of admission requirements that the VCU School of Allied Health Professions place on students with disability who desire to pursue education in clinical laboratory sciences. These lists of requirements are very specific and practical, but many of them seem to be setting a barrier for many people, especially those with disabilities. These standards may be analyzed to see why people set up such barriers that make many labs inaccessible to many people and how they can be changed to make labs more accessible.
Duerstock, Brad. "Students with disabilities put adaptive lab resources to test during summer program." Purdue News. West Lafayette, 24 June 2013. 25 October 2013. <http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q2/students-with-disabilities-put-adaptive-lab-resources-to-test-during-summer-program.html>.
This is an article that discusses how a group of college students made an attempt to make science labs accessible to other students with disabilities by instituting lab equipment that are adoptable to their conditions and other technologies that aid them in learning. This effort to make labs accessible to the students with disabilities show that people are still in the process of working on the inaccessibility of the labs and other opportunities involved in participating in science labs. In other words, there are still many possible ways in which people can make science labs more accessible.
Dutchen, Stephanie. Opening Up the Lab - September 2012 - Findings - Science Publication - National Institute of General Medical Sciences. 28 September 2012. 28 October 2013. <http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/findings/sept12/opening-up-the-lab.asp>.
This article shows how a student with disability was able to pursue his path as a physician and was able to make progress in the inaccessibility of the science labs in college by encouraging the re-designing of the lab settings and inventing accessible lab equipment. This shows how people with disabilities can make changes in the accessibility of the labs by themselves. I thought it was very interesting to see how the student with disability was able to overcome the barriers and obstacles in the labs and pursue his own goal in life.
ILAB. ILAB - Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind. n.d. 28 October 2013. <http://ilab.psu.edu/>.
This website show how the project known as ILAB associated with Research in Disabilities Education led to the foundation of Independence Science, which is an organization that produces lab equipment that is accessible to people with disabilities. This serves as an evidence that eliminating the physical barriers in the labs is applicable and that this could serve as a part of the solution to the inaccessibility of the science labs for many people. I thought that it was intersting to see how there are so many people focusing on eliminating the physical barriers in the accessibility of the labs yet so few working on the social barriers.