'Disability doesn't mean inability'
New DSS director brings personal experience
Lindsay Stuart
Issue date: 1/17/08 Section: News
Pownall said DSS will continue to run the same way and changes made will be minimal.
"I don't foresee a lot of changes that most people would notice, just systemic changes," Pownall said.
Pownall said the DSS office will do satisfaction surveys and measure accommodations to see how effective they were.
Learning Disabilities Specialist Jim Boyle is looking forward to improving DSS.
"We are trying to change things to see what we can do to improve things in the office and use his background to further our horizons as far as what kind of things we are trying to accomplish," Boyle said.
DSS secretary Shirley Lodes said she has enjoyed working with Pownall.
"It's always interesting when you work with new people," Lodes said. "You have your experiences and procedures and they have theirs … you just mesh the best of both worlds."
Pownall hopes to increase awareness of disabilities on campus by starting a Disability Awareness Month.
"We want to try to offer the opportunity for students who don't have disabilities to learn more about disabilities and experience simulations and things," Pownall said. "While you can't try on other people's disability and truly know how they feel as an individual, you can truly have some empathy with the struggles and difficulties that it can be to access the institution. It helps to be able to communicate that to other people."
"I don't foresee a lot of changes that most people would notice, just systemic changes," Pownall said.
Pownall said the DSS office will do satisfaction surveys and measure accommodations to see how effective they were.
Learning Disabilities Specialist Jim Boyle is looking forward to improving DSS.
"We are trying to change things to see what we can do to improve things in the office and use his background to further our horizons as far as what kind of things we are trying to accomplish," Boyle said.
DSS secretary Shirley Lodes said she has enjoyed working with Pownall.
"It's always interesting when you work with new people," Lodes said. "You have your experiences and procedures and they have theirs … you just mesh the best of both worlds."
Pownall hopes to increase awareness of disabilities on campus by starting a Disability Awareness Month.
"We want to try to offer the opportunity for students who don't have disabilities to learn more about disabilities and experience simulations and things," Pownall said. "While you can't try on other people's disability and truly know how they feel as an individual, you can truly have some empathy with the struggles and difficulties that it can be to access the institution. It helps to be able to communicate that to other people."
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tomfeinberg
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