Accessibility Spotlights
Blind Awareness Month: Courtesy as a Rule
October is Blind Awareness Month and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Disability Services is celebrating it by offering some tips on interacting appropriately with students, faculty, or Pocatello residents who are blind or visually impaired.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Quince Mattick Graduates Cum Laude, Guide Dog at her Side
When Quincie Mattick received her diploma with honors on May 6 at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Spring 2023 Commencement at Reed Gymnasium on May 6, she was accompanied by her loving and nearly ever-present companion, Tessa, her service dog.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Accessibility Spotlight: A guide to service dog etiquette
It’s important for the campus community to know the difference between service dogs and emotional support animals and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ now has policies in place for preventing service dog discrimination.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Accessibility Spotlight: Teams are Devoted to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Released February 2022. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Disability Services creates teams that can include sign language interpreters, note-takers, transcribers, and others to help Deaf and Hard of Hearing students succeed.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Accessibility Spotlight: Disability Services creates braille documents to better serve its students
Story released November 2021. Responding to the needs of some of its blind students, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Office of Disability Services, under the Division of Student Affairs, has embarked on an innovative pilot program to create braille reading materials in-house.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Accessibility Spotlight: White Canes
Released December 2021. For a student who is blind and using a white cane, negotiating the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campus can be a tricky business.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Accessibility Spotlight: eText program serves hundreds of students per semester
Released September 2021. Sometimes Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Disabilities Services workers must cut the bindings off from textbooks so that each page can be scanned to create a PDF file of the book for use in its eText program, which is used by hundreds of students per semester.