How To Effectively Tutor Students With Disabilities

Description  Challenge - Providing tutoring solutions for students with disabilities This webinar will address the various challenges that some tutors have when working with students with disabilities and offer concrete solutions to those challenges. Key Takeaway This webinar will provide tutor training exercises and practices for working with students with disabilities. Overview Working with students who have disabilities can often be intimidating for tutors, especially for undergraduate tutors who may feel that they don’t possess the expertise to support this population adequately. Educating tutors on various disabilities while at the same time helping them develop an empathic understanding that everyone learns and processes information differently can better equip them to help students with disabilities. While there are many theories that can guide practice to train tutors in this area, one effective strategy is to utilize the concept of universal design as a framework t