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ACCESS conducts on-going types of research to determine how it can improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities. ACCESS research includes the following:
□ Informal Research
Through Miami Dade College Innovations in Student Services Grants, ACCESS has developed skill modules to provide greater opportunities to access and review different concepts on-line. (See Resources page for Modules in Mathematics).
□ Ethnographic Research
ACCESS is developing an ethnographic study of student personal growth and success and specifically examines how student strengths – their abilities, their talents, their skills and their personal qualities have more of an impact upon outcomes than any negative impact from disability. This is a process that is part of an Abilities Model approach to disability services (Click here to view the Abilities Model page). ACCESS has begun to define a set of principles based upon current findings and these include the following:
- Assessment must result in increasing knowledge and understanding of abilities
- Abilities are not always skills or talents but attitudes, qualities, insights, or re-creations of character and personality.
- Acquired disability is a catalyst for change in abilities
- Life-long disability is a cultural experience that must be understood
- One or more abilities breaks down barriers and may reduce reliance on accommodations
- Environments can uncover or enhance abilities
□ Presentations of Research
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