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Inclusion and Consultation: Activities for Teaching about Disability in Education (2nd Edition)

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About this Resource

This project was funded by eCampusOntario, a portal for learners to find online and mostly online courses available at Ontario colleges and universities supported by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development.

The 2nd edition was supported by The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Acknowledgements

The following people developed the first iteration of this website, which is a source for the current site.

© Underwood, K. & Feltham, L. E. (2018). Inclusion and Consultation: Activities for Teaching about Disability in Education, Toronto Metropolitan University. Except where otherwise noted, this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Content and Expertise

Kathryn Underwood

Dr. Kathryn Underwood, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies, Faculty of Community Services, Toronto Metropolitan University

Laura Feltham

Laura Feltham, MA
Curriculum Design Assistant, School of Early Childhood Studies, Faculty of Community Services, Toronto Metropolitan University

Content Review Experts

Evelina Siwik-Lukaszyk, MA, Part-time Instructor, School of Early Childhood Studies, Faculty of Community Services, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Gillian Parekh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, York University

Dr. Isabel Killoran, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, York University

Reviewers from the College of Early Childhood Educators.

Special Thanks

All of the people that were interviewed and contributed to the content of the project.

eLearning Support

Dr. Wendy Freeman, PhD, Director, Office of eLearning, Toronto Metropolitan University

Nada Savicevic, MArch, MA Interactive Design, Instructional Designer, Office of eLearning, Toronto Metropolitan University

Project Manager & Developer

Adam Chaboryk, IT Accessibility Specialist, Digital Media Projects, Toronto Metropolitan University

Multimedia Production Support

Aaron Hamilton, eLearning Production Assistant (Student), Office of eLearning, Toronto Metropolitan University

Ahmad Abu-Kwiek, eLearning Production Assistant (Student), Office of eLearning, Toronto Metropolitan University

Steven (Shiqi) Dong, eLearning Developer (Student), Office of eLearning, Toronto Metropolitan University

The following content, images, videos, software, scripts and/or other multimedia are not included under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The following items are property of their respective owners.

Resource Copyright
Image: Toronto Metropolitan University logo. The Toronto Metropolitan University logo is a registered trademark or trademark of Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada and/or other countries.
Image: Images of children on homepage. © Toronto Metropolitan University.
Videos: Closing Videos (4 video interviews with resource consultants) These videos are licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Code: Accessibility toolbar (acctoolbar.min.js) or acc_toolbar © 2017 mickidum. Acc_toolbar is licensed under a MIT License.
Code: Text-to-speech script (articulate.min.js) or Articulate.js © 2016. Adam Coti. Articulate.js is licensed under a MIT License.
Code: Bootstrap v4.0.0-beta front-end framework. © 2011-2017 Twitter, Inc. © 2011-2017 The Bootstrap Authors. Bootstrap is licensed under a MIT License.
Code: Start Bootstrap - Scrolling Nav theme. © 2013-2018 Blackrock Digital LLC. Scrolling Nav released under the MIT license.

Accessibility

Toronto Metropolitan University strives to make its websites accessible to the widest possible audience, including those accessing with assistive technologies. The Inclusion and Consultation website endeavours to conform to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 . The WCAG 2.0 guidelines are designed to help make the web more user friendly for everyone regardless of technology or ability. We recognize that some features may not yet be supported universally; however, if you are using current browser and assistive technologies, most of what is described below should be accessible to you.

This website contains the following accessibility features:

  • Settings to adjust the visual display of content.
  • Closed captioning and transcripts provided for all video content.
  • Strong colour contrast between foreground text and background colours.
  • Consistent navigation and layout of topics.
  • Keyboard-friendly navigation menus and accordion components.
  • Consistent headings used in a hierarchical manner.
  • Landmarks to be used with your assistive technology's landmarks feature for navigation.
  • Descriptive labels and icons to distinguish external links and downloadable files.
  • Image descriptions for images that contain meaningful content.
  • Skip to main content bypass link visible on every page.
  • Experimental feature: Audio button to listen to the main content area. References or inline citations are removed for an enjoyable listening experience.

Learn more about Toronto Metropolitan University's commitment to accessibility.