- PMC Lunch and Learn Series for Faculty
- Accessible Online Course Design
- Course Outlines
- Relevant Terminology
- Other Online Resources
Please do not hesitate to contact PMC directly if you have any questions or concerns that are not addressed here.
PMC Lunch and Learn Series for Faculty
Join us this fall for a monthly series of engaging and informative workshops designed to support you, as a course instructor, in creating accessible learning experiences for your students.
The PMC Fall Lunch & Learn Series offers valuable information, insights, practical strategies, and collaborative opportunities to enhance your teaching practices and support students with disabilities in your classroom.
Free to attend! No registration necessary.
Accessible Online Course Design
Updates will be posted shortly.
Course Outlines
Details about the processes for accessing each type of accommodation(s) can be found on the Course Outline Information on Academic Accommodations page of the Current Students website. Information on what to include in your course outline is provided by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic).
Relevant Terminology
Essential Requirements
Essential requirements refers to requirements in a course or a program that cannot be altered without compromising the fundamental nature of the course or program. Determining what is an essential requirement and what is not is critical in distinguishing requirements that cannot be accommodated from what can be altered.
Universal Instructional Design (UID) represents a set of emerging initiatives, principles, guidelines, and projects that promote and work toward inclusive and equitable access to learning.
Level 1 Autism Spectrum Disorder (formerly known as Asperger’s Syndrome)
“Asperger’s Syndrome” is now subsumed under the broad category of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Those diagnosed in the past with Asperger’s would now be identified as having Level 1 ASD (requiring minimal supports).
Hearing Loss
Loss of hearing is often a hidden disability. Many factors can contribute to an individual’s ability to use his/her residual hearing. For example, a deaf or hard of hearing person may not function optimally in a room in which there is a great deal of ambient noise (e.g. hum produced by the air system or an overhead projector) or a room that has poor acoustics (e.g. a room that has a bank of windows that cause sound to reverberate).
Memory Impairments
Memory refers to a complex set of cognitive and neurological processes involved in the acquisition, storage, and recall of information. Some students registered with the PMC have disability-related functional impairments that directly affect memory. At university, students must learn and retrieve significantly more information at a higher level of complexity and detail than they have in the past.
Notetaking Services
A number of students registered with the Paul Menton Centre (PMC) are unable to take lecture notes or can take very limited notes due to disability-related reasons. For such students, one of the services approved based on their disability documentation is a request for a volunteer notetaker/access to volunteer notetaking services. In order to facilitate this service, the course instructors are asked to make in-class announcements as many times as necessary until a volunteer notetaker is found.
Emergency Guidelines
Emergency procedures are published for the information and action of all staff in the event of emergencies requiring the evacuation of disabled occupants from campus buildings.
Other Online Resources
A collection of links to useful websites and online reference materials.