Services and Accommodations
for Students with Disabilities
A Guide for Faculty, Staff and Students
Suggested Reading and Other Resources
Blackbird Fly Away: Disabled in an Able-Bodied World, by Hugh Gregory Gallagher (1998).
College Students with Learning Disabilities: A Handbook for College LD Students, Admissions Officers, and Administrators, by Susan Vogel (latest edition).
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood, by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey (1995).
In the Mind’s Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People with Learning Difficulties, Computer Images, and the Ironies of Creativity, by Thomas G. West (1991).
Keeping Ahead in School: A Student’s Book About Learning Disabilities and Learning Disorders, by Dr. Mel Levine (1990).
Memoirs of an Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison (1997).
links updated 5/29/08 rab
Videos: How Difficult Can This Be; The Race Inside My Head; Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer Technology.
Copies of these related cases and articles are available from the Office of General Counsel:
Linda Lee, To Teach, or Merely Accommodate, N.Y. Times, April 9, 2000, Education Life Supplement, Section 4A at 30.
Sutton v. United Airlines, Inc., 527 U.S. 471 (1999).
Albertsons, Inc. v. Kirkingburg, 527 U.S. 555 (1999).
Wong v. Regents of the University of California, 192 F.3d 807, amended opinion at 1999 US App. LEXIS 30061 (9th Cir. 1999).
Note, Towards Reasonable Equality: Accommodating Learning Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 1560 (1998).
Guckenberger v. Boston University, 8 F. Supp. 2d 82 (D. Mass. 1998).
Guckenberger v. Boston University, 974 F. Supp. 106 (D. Mass. 1997).
Students with Learning Disabilities, Synthesis, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 1997.
