Summary
he webinar is divided into four segments: strategies for engaging students with intellectual disabilities (ID) in online learning, outreach strategies to decrease barriers, connecting students with educational plans for motivation and goal completion, and introducing the Puzzle Project for creating successful online communities.
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The UCLA Tarjan Center hosted a webinar in collaboration with Mount San Antonio College on connecting students to campus resources in order to decrease barriers in achieving educational goals in the online setting. The webinar is divided into four segments. In the first segment, Briseida Ramirez Catalan, M.A., and Susan Stroebel, M.S. Ed., provide an overview of strategies to help students with an intellectual disability (ID) engage in online learning environments, and how to maximize students’ participation. In the second segment, Naomi Avila, MSW, M.A., provides a variety of outreach strategies that are used to decrease barriers encountered by students. In the third segment, Dr. Laura Espinosa, DPA, MSW, and Yasmin Cardona-Byrne, MSW, share information about connecting students with educational plans to keep them motivated and on track to complete their educational goals. In the final segment, Elizabeth Hernandez, M.Ed., and Heather Ponce, M.S. CCC-SLP, and Jacquelyn Dunlap introduce the Puzzle Project and how they persisted to engage students by creating successful online communities.
This webinar is designed to explain ways to impact students by collaborating with campus supports and faculty in order to increase student engagement in online classes. More specifically, it lists supports and resources for students who have autism and/or ID to aid social interaction and learning in a remote higher education environment.