January 7, 2009
Below are the items for the ODS News! for Wednesday, January 7th, 2009:
1. ODS Invites You to its Winter Open House!
2. Free Computer Printing in the ATTC!
3. Attention Alternative Media Users!
4. ODS Welcomes New Technology to Assist Deaf/ Hard of Hearing Students!
5. African American Community Weekly Calendar!
6. Discussion and Movie Screening Event on Adolescent Suicide!
7. Call for Student Posters!
1. ODS Invites You to its Winter Open House!
Celebrate our 35 year anniversary at our Winter Quarter Open House on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009! We will have warm cider, hot cocoa, and plenty of winter weather snacks! Take a tour of our Assistive Technology Training Center (ATTC), view our remodeled front office, and visit with members of our student groups UNITY and Sports FUSION!
The Open House will begin at 1:00pm and will end at 4:00pm. Stop in when you can - no RSVP needed!
2. Free Computer Printing in the ATTC!
Students registered with ODS are now able to print 75 free pages of printing per quarter (increased from 50 pages per quarter) in the ATTC. If this is not reflected in your balance, please contact your ODS counselor.
3. Attention Alternative Media Users!
From the Alternative Media Staff:
Reminders:
We need you to bring in your textbook receipts before we can release your converted materials to you.
We also need you to provide us with copies of your course syllabi (for all classes that have or plan to receive Alternative Media). Please either bring in a paper copy (for us to copy) or e-mail us your syllabi to Ali ahickey@studentlife.osu.edu or Sarah terry.5@osu.edu.
CARMEN Materials: Each quarter there are a growing number of materials posted on CARMEN for students to use. We want to let you know that we can assist you with any of the required readings that are posted, however we need to hear from you to let us know if you need help. Please contact Sarah or Ali if you need your readings from CARMEN converted into your desired format.
Bookshare.org
The Ohio State University Office for Disability Services is partnering with Bookshare.org. The following is a brief excerpt from the Bookshare.org website explaining what they have to offer to students who are authorized to use Alternative Media.
Bookshare.org (http://www.bookshare.org)
n.d. (Web). 8/13/08. Bookshare.org is a web-based system supplying accessible books in digital formats designed for people with disabilities. These digital formats are the NISO/DAISY XML-based format for the next generation of talking books, and the BRF format for Braille devices and printers. Access to copyrighted books from Bookshare.org is limited to people with bona fide print disabilities and the schools and nonprofit organizations serving them. An array of security protections and Digital Rights Management solutions ensure that these books are available only to authorized users. End
Memberships can be obtained through the institutional membership which the Office for Disability Services (ODS) has established with Bookshare.org. Obtaining books through Bookshare.org will depend on the type of membership you select. For more information on how the membership can work for you, contact either contact Sarah Terry.5@osu.edu or go directly to the website at: http://www.bookshare.org/web/SupportOrgSignUpInfo.html
4. ODS Welcomes New Technology to Assist Deaf/ Hard of Hearing Students!
ODS is welcoming a new addition to the ATTC for deaf/hard-of-hearing students that use sign language! We now provide the Sorenson Videophone and Sorenson Video Relay Service (SVRS)!
What is SVRS?
Sorenson Video Relay Service (SVRS) is a free 24-hour service for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community that enables anyone to conduct video relay calls with family, friends, or business associates. Calls are placed and received through a professional American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter via a high-speed Internet connection and VRS equipment (i.e., a Sorenson VP-200 videophone).
Who is SVRS for?
SVRS is for deaf and hard-of-hearing callers who use ASL to place phone calls to any hearing person. Additionally, SVRS is available for hearing users to contact deaf and hard-of-hearing persons.
For more information on SVRS products, visit http://www.sorensonvrs.com
For information on how to use the SVRS at ODS, contact Claudia Kinder at 614-292-3307 or email at ckinder@studentlife.osu.edu.
5. African American Community Weekly Calendar!
Your avenue to involvement in the community
Multicultural Center Powwow Committee
Two spots are open for students to join the 2009 Powwow Committee. If you are interested, please email Candi Krisch, ckrisch@studentlife.osu.edu. Meetings will begin this quarter.
Men of Vision Bible Study
Date: Tuesday and Thursday, January 6 & 8, 2009 (ongoing)
Location: Frank w. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, Room 145, 7-9pm
Sponsor:
Contact: Daniel Mann mann.274@osu.edu and Lance Evans superstaff18@gmail.com
Women of Virtue Bible Study
Date: Tuesday and Thursday, January 6 & 8, 2009 (ongoing)
Location: Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, Room 145, 7-9pm
Sponsor: Kingdom University
Contact: Amanda Grant grant.260@osu.edu , or Liz Thomas thomas.1615@osu.edu
Has it been a long time since you've read your bible, or are you interested in taking your faith to the next level? Do you want to know more about Jesus? W.O.V is the right place for you. Join us as we depict biblical truths in a relaxed atmosphere of your peers. Bring a friend!
Save The Date!!!
39th Annual United Black World Month Kick Off Speaker – Nikki Giovanni
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Location: Hitchcock Auditorium, Room 131, 8pm
Sponsor: Multicultural Center, Office of Minority Affairs, OSU Alumni Association, Department of African American & African Studies, Kirwan Institute on Race & Ethnicity
Contact: Christa Porter, porter.554@osu.edu
If your student organization would like to publicize an event on the United Black World Month poster, feel free to contact porter.554@osu.edu by Friday, January 9th.
6. Discussion and Movie Screening Event on Adolescent Suicide!
Join us for a screening of: For the Bible Tells Me So
(Brought to you by SNMA & Project Professionalism (Movies in Meiling & Difficult Discussions))
Following the film an expert panel will lead a thought provoking discussion of adolescent suicide
Date: 1/7/09 (THIS Wednesday)
Time: Starting at 6 pm
Location: 160 Meiling Hall
Dinner WILL be provided so please RSVP to wendy.palastro@osumc.edu
This is a documentary released in 2007.
For more information on this film please check out: http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/index2.htm
Friends and family are welcome to attend.
To all students:
As a part of Project Professionalism, the Difficult Discussions group and Movies in Meiling is planning this event focusing on youth suicide. The aim of this event is to increase awareness of youth suicide so that as future physicians we can successfully screen our patients and direct the ones of greatest concern to the help they need.
Suicide is an often misunderstood and taboo subject in our culture. Yet it is widely accepted that early recognition of the signs of suicidal behavior and subsequent intervention are extremely successful at preventing the act. The reasons for suicide are highly individual and often difficult to understand, especially if you have never contemplated suicide yourself. In addition, statistically, certain populations are at higher risk for suicide than others and therefore merit more attention. Specifically, teenagers exploring homosexuality are over 4 times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual counterparts.
Difficult Discussions has chosen to highlight the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender questioning adolescent population in our discussion of youth suicide because of their higher rates of suicide completion. Our event includes showing a controversial film “For the Bible Tells Me So” for the purpose of elucidating the nature of the controversy facing this particular population, which may help in understanding the rationale for suicide from the perspective of these individuals. After showcasing this film, we have arranged a panel which includes doctors that specialize in adolescent suicide, as well as the director of Columbus Suicide Prevention Services.
Due to the controversial and mature content of this presentation, the Difficult Discussion group will include a moderator to ensure the focus of this discussion remains entirely on youth suicide. It is not our intention to discuss the morality of sexual orientation, nor is it our intention to condone or condemn homosexuality.
This event will take place in Meiling 160, on January 7th at 6pm. We look forward to your attendance and hope that you will find this event helpful in your preparation for becoming a physician.
Thanks,
Difficult Discussion Group and Movies in Meiling, Project Professionalism
7. Call for Student Posters!
Proposals Due March 30th, 2009
Ninth Annual
Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability:
Change, Challenge, & Collaboration
April 28 and 29, 2009
Student Poster Session Tuesday, April 28th 2009
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This year’s theme “Change, Challenge & Collaboration” reflects the critical place in history we occupy. Since the last conference the United Nations has adopted the Convention on Disability; Congress passed the ADA Amendments Act, a new GI bill with significant support for disabled veterans and the Higher Education Opportunity Act which includes significant provisions on disability; the Access Board is proposing changes in Section 508, and the Department of Justice is in the final stages of a comprehensive review and update of the regulations for the ADA’s Titles II and III.
Graduate and undergraduate posters are being solicited to represent the broad interdisciplinary approaches to disability at the undergraduate and graduate level. Submissions may be based on :
· Class Projects & Papers
· Independent & Supervised Student Research
· Community Service & Applied Problem Solving from Service Learning Classes or student organizations
· Art & Performance
Our custom is to offer a number of quotes to assist you in describing your work from a fresh perspective
· “Disability Studies should serve as an access ramp between the disability community and research universities.” Paul K. Longmore
· “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken
· "Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” Justice William J. Brennan
· “Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.” Gordon Gee
Posters can take a variety of forms:
Print material mounted on poster board or display panels or arranged on a table
PowerPoint, web page or video presentation from laptop (10 minute maximum length)
Presentation materials must fit on a 3’x6’ table or along 6’ or less of wall space
Presenters must provide their own equipment
Visit these sites for information on how to present at a poster session:
http://airweb.org/page.asp?page=586
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/poster/index.cfm
http://www.plu.edu/~libr/workshops/multimedia/posters.html
Students and teams of students who wish to present a poster display of their project must send the following information to ADA-OSU@osu.edu no later than March 30, 2009
- Title
- Short Title - 12 word maximum
- Description of their proposed poster – 150 word maximum
- E-mail address, phone number, and surface mail address of coordinating presenter
- As appropriate, university, department, grant, course or student organization affiliation
- A letter of support from a faculty member or organization advisor associated with the project
Submissions will be reviewed as they arrive; selected participants will be notified within 2 weeks of submission. Conference fees will be waived for all accepted presenters.
For more information contact: L. Scott Lissner, ADA Coordinator
ada-osu@osu.edu or 614-292-6207 (voice) or 614-688-8605 (tty)
L. Scott Lissner
University
Office of the Provost
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(614) 292-6207 (614) 688-8605 (tty)
lissner.2@osu.edu HTTP://ada.osu.edu
Ninth Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability:
Change, Challenge, & Collaboration
April 28 and 29, 2009
http://ada.osu.edu/conferences/2009Conf/callforpapers09.html