ThinkUDL is a podcast about Universal Design for Learning where they converse with the people who are designing and implementing strategies in post-secondary settings with learner variability in mind. Host Lillian Nave, discovers not just WHAT her guests are teaching, learning, guiding and facilitating, but HOW they design and implement it, and WHY it even matters.
Episode 137 features our Program Director Cate Weir. In this conversation, Cate talks about the history of and need for college programs for students with intellectual disabilities, what the benefits are to the students enrolled in these programs as well as the benefits to professors who teach and the general enrollment students who take classes in which students with intellectual disabilities are co-enrolled. Throughout the conversation they deconstruct what it means to say a person is “college material” and how it has changed over the years, and they end with thoughts on how instructors, students and universities can design environments where all students, including those with intellectual disabilities, are included.