Disability Services
Bulletin Board
Know Your Rights!
An informational luncheon for people with Disabilities
What?: Two speakers, one from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and one from Cleveland State Dept of Affirmative Action will talk about the rights of people with disabilities on campus and in the workplace.
When: Thursday, Feb. 3rd at Noon.
Where: The Student Center The 3rd Floor Ballroom
Who's sponsoring it: The SGA Disability Inclusion Committee with assistance from the Student Govt. Association Office of Disability Services.
Why are we doing it? To educate students about their rights as people with disabilities in the workplace and in the workplace.
Refreshments will be served
Victor Reader Streams Available for Student Use
Students who are eligible to receive alternative text may use our new Victor Stream Players. These players use SD cards to hold all of your readings. They are around the size of an MP3 Player and will play your RFB&D books, some publisher requested formats, and the scanned Texts provided by Disability Services. The players can be used to read the text files provided by the office with its built in speech synthesizer.
We have a limited number of these players. If you would like to use a Victor Stream please schedule an appointment with Jeff Dell for training and to load your files on the player.
These players are made available thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), awarded by the State Library of Ohio and matching funds from Student Tech Fee.
American Council of the Blind 2011-2012 Academic Year Scholarship Announcement
The American Council of the Blind (ACB) annually awards approximately twenty scholarships ranging in amounts from $1,000 to $2,500 to vocational, entering freshmen, undergraduate and graduate college students who are legally blind, maintain a 3.3 GPA and are involved in their school/local community.
Applications may be submitted beginning December 1st and all materials must be received by 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on March 1st. To read the scholarship guidelines and complete an on-line application, please visit: www.acb.org/scholarship.
For more information, please contact the ACB National Office at: (202) 467-5081 or (800) 424-8666. We look forward to receiving your application materials!
NASA internships
NASA is looking to increase the number of blind and disabled students, pursuing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers through our internship programs. We have a two-percent hiring goal. Students can apply until February 1, 2011. They can register for an account and look for internships anytime at http://intern.nasa.gov/ . Internships run for ten weeks from May 31, 2011, through August 5, 2011.
Internships are available at all NASA centers nationwide. Students can submit applications where they either select or do not select an opportunity or opportunities. Selecting an opportunity or opportunities has the advantage of allowing applicants to be considered by mentors who work in disciplines of interest and at a particular center. For example, an opportunity having to do with the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will be at Goddard in Maryland because SDO is here. Not selecting any opportunities may result in no mentors even looking at their applications because they will not have flagged their applications to mentors' opportunities. It's important to make clear that applications can be viewed by all mentors whether students select opportunities or not. However, not selecting any opportunities means that prospective interns will be hoping that a mentor happens to read their applications rather than directing their applications to mentors in fields and at centers of interest.
Students, who are selected for internships, will receive an offer letter by E-mail sometime after February 2, 2011. They will then have five days to either accept or reject the offer on the website. The offer will automatically expire after five days if no action is taken.
Please feel free to contact me for more information or help with applying.
Kenneth A. Silberman, Esq.
Voice: (301) 286-9281
E-mail: kenneth.a.silberman@nasa.gov
Opportunity to Participate in an Adult Education Study for Nontraditional Students
The Central/Southeast ABLE Resource Center, housed at Ohio University, is interested in learning more about how to help non-traditional adult students with disabilities transition to college and succeed in achieving their career goals. We would like you invite you to participate in this research project. If you are registered with the office of Disability Services and are interested in sharing your thoughts and ideas with us about transitioning to college, please contact the researcher at reynols1@ohio.edu or 740-593-0969 to find out more information. Your involvement would take about one hour of your time. We thank you for considering this project. Of course, all of your information will be kept strictly confidential.
Thank you very much!
Happy Holidays.
Sharon L. Reynolds, M.Ed
Director, Adult Literacy
Stevens Literacy Center and ABLE Resource Center
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Career Opportunities for People with Disabilities
- Human Resources
- Engineering
- Languages
- Finance
- Contracts
- General Sciences
- Law
- Administrative Support
- Business Administration
- Criminal Justice
- Facilities Management
- Computer Science
- Logistics
- Healthcare Policy
- Accounting
- Mathematics
- Information Technology
- Cyber Security
Federal government agencies are hiring now!
People with disabilities who are interested in working for federal government agencies should apply to: resume@benderconsult.com with Federal Opportunities in the subject line.
If you have questions please contact: Sherry Homme at 412-446-4447 or shomme@benderconsult.com
- Handbook for Students with Disabilities
- ODS Bulletin Board
- For Prospective Students
- For Students
- For Faculty
- For Parents & Counselors
- CSU Employees with Disabilities
- For CSU Visitors
- Alternative Text
- Testing in ODS
- Assistive Technology
Cleveland State University
Disability Services
2121 Euclid Avenue
MC 147
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Main Classroom 147
1899 East 22nd Street
Phone: 216.687.2015
Fax: 216.687.2343
E-mail Tests To:
ods@csuohio.edu
Web Contact
Jeffrey Dell
j.dell@csuohio.edu
216.687.2015