Educational Access Coordinator

Educational Access Coordinator

Warren Wilson is seeking applicants for our Educational Access Coordinator position. This position works directly with students with a broad range of disabilities including, but not limited to, physical, sensory, psychological, and learning disabilities. The Coordinator has primary responsibility for interpreting the mandates of the ADA of 1990 and Sections 503, 504, and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as they apply to individual students at Warren Wilson. The Coordinator will meet with students to assess and verify the need for academic, work, service-learning and programmatic accommodations for individual students with disabilities by conducting intake interviews and interpreting students' psychoeducational, psychological, medical, or other professional documentation. The Coordinator will also organize services for students with disabilities contacting faculty and work crew supervisors about accommodations and coordinating tutoring, transportation, the use of special equipment and any other student needs. This position will average about 20 hours per week between August 1 and May 31 with occasional summer hours for consultation.

Qualifications:

Master's degree in counseling, special education, learning disabilities, educational psychology or related discipline, working knowledge of the laws affecting persons with disabilities, experience in working with a college age population, exceptional interpersonal skills to work effectively with groups and individuals with diverse backgrounds and disabilities, basic computing skills and use of other technological tools.

Desired Qualifications:

Training and experience interpreting results of psychoeducational testing, psychological, and clinical documentation of secondary and/or postsecondary students with disabilities, proficiency in assistive technology hardware and software available to persons with disabilities.

Review of applications will begin on September 22, 2006.

Please send cover letter, resume and 3 letters of reference to: Gail Baylor, Warren Wilson College, PO Box 9000, Asheville, NC 28815-9000.



Source - Asheville Citizen Times - Asheville, NC
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