Deconstructing the VISA: Academic Accommodations and Self-Disclosure

College students living with disabilities must disclose, manage, share, and communicate their personal health information in order to receive academic accommodations. The academic gatekeepers to this process are disability services specialists who are important “third parties:” non-family members, n...

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Main Author: Catherine Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Akron Press 2017-12-01
Series:Proceedings from the Document Academy
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Online Access:https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol4/iss2/13
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description College students living with disabilities must disclose, manage, share, and communicate their personal health information in order to receive academic accommodations. The academic gatekeepers to this process are disability services specialists who are important “third parties:” non-family members, non-friends, who work with clinical information to meet the educational needs of their student clients. The author reports the results of the first of several studies of different stakeholders in the academic accommodations process and their attitudes about Personal health records (PHRs). Semistructured interviews were conducted between January and April, 2013, with 17 Disabilities Services (DS) specialists at 2 different public 4-year universities. This paper focuses specifically on DS staff reports about clinical document types encountered, the role of a single document as gatekeeper and verification of disability status, and the issues that documentation presents for the academic accommodations process.
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spelling doaj.art-602dafd8ecd2471abd16bdbfa7a733b42022-12-22T03:53:01ZengUniversity of Akron PressProceedings from the Document Academy2473-215X2017-12-0110.35492/docam/4/2/13Deconstructing the VISA: Academic Accommodations and Self-DisclosureCatherine SmithCollege students living with disabilities must disclose, manage, share, and communicate their personal health information in order to receive academic accommodations. The academic gatekeepers to this process are disability services specialists who are important “third parties:” non-family members, non-friends, who work with clinical information to meet the educational needs of their student clients. The author reports the results of the first of several studies of different stakeholders in the academic accommodations process and their attitudes about Personal health records (PHRs). Semistructured interviews were conducted between January and April, 2013, with 17 Disabilities Services (DS) specialists at 2 different public 4-year universities. This paper focuses specifically on DS staff reports about clinical document types encountered, the role of a single document as gatekeeper and verification of disability status, and the issues that documentation presents for the academic accommodations process.https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol4/iss2/13personal health recorddisabilityacademic accommodationhealth information
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title Deconstructing the VISA: Academic Accommodations and Self-Disclosure
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title_full_unstemmed Deconstructing the VISA: Academic Accommodations and Self-Disclosure
title_short Deconstructing the VISA: Academic Accommodations and Self-Disclosure
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academic accommodation
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