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Deconstructing The Visa: Academic Accommodations And Self-Disclosure, Catherine A. Smith Phd
Deconstructing The Visa: Academic Accommodations And Self-Disclosure, Catherine A. Smith Phd
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College students living with disabilities must disclose, manage, share, and communicate their personal health information in order to receive academic accommodations. The academic gatekeepers to this process are disability services specialists who are important “third parties:” non-family members, non-friends, who work with clinical information to meet the educational needs of their student clients. The author reports the results of the first of several studies of different stakeholders in the academic accommodations process and their attitudes about Personal health records (PHRs). Semistructured interviews were conducted between January and April, 2013, with 17 Disabilities Services (DS) specialists at 2 different public 4-year …