This online, asynchronous course considers how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) can help your program meet the requirements of the ADA and become more inclusive by ensuring that your program is responsive to learners with disabilities.
Topics include grievance procedures, disclosure, confidentiality, reporting abuse and neglect, reasonable accommodations, and programmatic considerations and procedures. This training, designed for ADA coordinators and other interested administrators, will help you use an accessibility checklist to evaluate your program’s ADA compliance and disability-conscious program administration.
About this course:
- This is an asynchronous course. You can complete it on your own schedule. There are no "real-time" meetings or sessions.
- Reviewing the information in the course and responding to discussions will take you five hours. However, this course includes additional activities to apply the learnings within your program, which we estimate will take an additional 10 hours. Please contact us with questions.
- Once you register, Jane Brandt will send you an email with information about how to access the course.
- The course opens on 1/29/2024 and closes on 2/23/2024.
- ADA coordinators in Massachusetts adult education programs
- Other Massachusetts adult education program staff interested in understanding how ADA can increase equitable access to programs
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
Adult education programs funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) are required to align their services with 10 Indicators of Program Quality (IPQ), this includes the following Indicator that is specifically relevant to this course:
- IPQ 2 Equitable Access: Guided by data and a responsibility for diversity, equity and inclusion, the program ensures that all adult learners in the local workforce area have equitable access to high quality educational services.
In addition, ACLS policies require programs to “make reasonable accommodations for students” and “designate an ADA Coordinator whose primary role is to ensure that the program is accessible and in compliance with the ADA.” The ADA requires, among other things, that programs designate an ADA coordinator.
By helping programs comply with policy, this course is designed to help you consider new ways to make your program more accessible.
About a week prior to the course opening, Jane Brandt will confirm your registration and send information about accessing the course.
For tech questions, contact jane_brandt@worlded.org. For questions about the content of the course, contact dani_scherer@worlded.org.
*To ensure that you receive information about your training, please save jane_brandt@worlded.org to your email address book.*
- Describe and apply the ADA regulations and guidelines
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Identify at least three key ways that ADA/ADAA impact adult education programs and services
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Effectively use ADA resources to enable your program to include persons with disabilities
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
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