Higher Education for All (Including Those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities)

Tamara (Tami) Shetron shares a vision of higher education for all (including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities on episode 507 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

My background is in a field called developmental education, which is some people used to call it remedial education, but the term evolved into developmental because remedial is the idea of fixing things, whereas developmental follows more the natural human cycle of growing and developing across the lifespan.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

Everyone can learn.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

What makes these programs different from a normal, typical college experience is they are designed to help students get employment.
-Tamara (Tami) Shetron

• Texas State University’s Bobcat RISE Program
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act
• National Core Indicators (NCI) from Think College