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- Title
The GOALS² Program: Expanded Supports for Students with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education (Practice Brief).
- Authors
Boney, Janette D.; Potvin, Marie-Christine; Chabot, Monique
- Abstract
The occupational therapy department of a medium-sized eastern Pennsylvania university developed and piloted the Greater Opportunity for Academic Learning and Living Successes (GOALS²) program in collaboration with the Office of Student Accessibility. The program intended to expand the traditional accommodations offered to students with disabilities on college campuses through the provision of occupational therapy services to address student-selected academic learning and living goals. During the pilot semester, 13 of the approximately 110 students with disabilities on campus elected to participate in the GOALS² program. These students met over 80% of their self-identified learning goals and reported that the program had significant value. Researchers interviewed seven of the students who expressed that they found the GOALS² program to be valuable in reaching their self-identified goals. The GOALS² program utilizes graduate level occupational therapy students and appears to be an inexpensive approach to augmenting the services offered to students with disabilities to promote their academic success.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; STUDENTS with disabilities; ACADEMIC accommodations; OCCUPATIONAL therapy students; POSTSECONDARY education; SERVICE learning; OCCUPATIONAL therapy services
- Publication
Journal of Postsecondary Education & Disability, 2019, Vol 32, Issue 3, p321
- ISSN
2379-7762
- Publication type
Article