Sharby Nancy, Roush Susan E
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
J Allied Health. 2009 Spring;38(1):54-62.
The purposes of this article are to (1) review the literature on students with disabilities (SWD) in higher education with a particular focus on allied health and related professions, and (2) propose an analytical decision-making model for assessing students' needs and providing reasonable accommodations in allied health education. Increasing numbers of SWD are entering higher education, but the rate of success for these students is lower than the rate for their nondisabled peers. A multitude of factors impact SWD, including the direct effects of the disabilities on learning and performing essential functions, academic and clinical faculty knowledge of the impact of disability in educational settings and their experience implementing accommodations, and the impact of legislation and institutional policies on service delivery. While all of these are important, the most critical issues appear to be academic and clinical faculty knowledge about how to address disability-related challenges in the educational environment and the support of SWD by those faculty. The proposed analytical decision-making model will assist allied health faculty in assessing students' needs and providing reasonable accommodations. This, in turn, will enable allied health faculty to support SWD to meet essential components while upholding academic integrity and meeting the requirements of the law.
（1）回顾高等教育中残疾学生（SWD）的相关文献，特别关注健康相关专业及相关职业领域；（2）提出一个分析性决策模型，用于评估健康相关专业教育中学生的需求并提供合理便利。越来越多的残疾学生进入高等教育阶段，但这些学生的成功率低于非残疾同龄人。众多因素影响着残疾学生，包括残疾对学习和履行基本职能的直接影响、学术和临床教师对残疾在教育环境中的影响的了解以及他们实施便利措施的经验，以及立法和机构政策对服务提供的影响。虽然所有这些都很重要，但最关键的问题似乎是学术和临床教师关于如何应对教育环境中与残疾相关挑战的知识，以及这些教师对残疾学生的支持。所提出的分析性决策模型将帮助健康相关专业教师评估学生的需求并提供合理便利。反过来，这将使健康相关专业教师能够支持残疾学生满足基本要求，同时维护学术诚信并符合法律要求。
