With the beginning of a new academic year comes a wave of student disability accommodation requests and issues. As practitioners in this space know, these requests and issues grow more complex and challenging each year. Therefore, it is crucial that an institution’s departments communicate clearly and effectively to ensure fairness and consistency in addressing student disability matters. Please join us for this two-hour webinar where three disability-law experts, including two former attorneys for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and an Associate Dean of Student Accessibility and Academic Resources, will discuss their working relationship in handling and responding to accommodation requests and other challenging disability law issues on campus. The webinar will include:

• An overview of the current legal landscape, including how to consider disability following the updates to the Title IX regulations;
• Hypotheticals exploring various situations where accessibility services must work with campus counsel to support a positive outcome;
• Discussion of challenges when faced with the academic perspective that an accommodation would constitute a fundamental alteration; and
• Advice from the perspective of an accessibility services professional, including guidance for how campus counsel can best support these offices.

Who should attend? This webinar will be of interest to college and university counsel who handle disability law related matters, as well as campus administrators with responsibilities related to reviewing and approving accommodations for students or who otherwise work on disability law matters.