Creating Accessible Courses for Miami Students With Disabilities
Eligibility
This FLC will consist of full-time faculty across colleges and disciplines who want to cultivate
classroom environments in which students with and without disabilities learn in community
with each other.
Amount
Each participant will receive $750 in professional development funds.
Submission
Deadline
May 15, 2026
Purpose and Description
“Creating Accessible Courses for Miami Students with Disabilities,” will support the design of
inclusive courses to increase access and support for Miami students. As a community, we will
explore answers to the following questions: What are the elements and formats of college
courses that create barriers for students with disabilities? What are the best practices for
designing a course and classroom environment in which students with disabilities can learn and
participate successfully alongside their nondisabled peers? How might members of this FLC
redesign specific courses to be accessible to all learners?
A secondary goal of this learning community is to establish a cohort of faculty whose
courses will be accessible to students in the Access Miami Program (AMP), a two-year
certificate program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). With
AMP, Miami University will join over 300 colleges and universities in the United States,
including 10 in Ohio, with programs designed for students with IDD. We will welcome our first
cohort of AMP students in the fall of 2027.
Activities
Members will:
- Examine and discuss the growing scholarship on inclusive higher education and thesocial and cultural barriers facing people with IDD.
- Learn from the lived experiences of students with intellectual disabilities, rather than learn about them.
- Workshop and revise a course that they regularly teach to increase accessibility for all Miami students, including students in the Access Miami Program.
Members
2026-2027
- Ashley Johnson, Educational Psychology, Co-Facilitator
- Pepper Stetler, Art, Co-Facilitator
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