Welcome to Universal Design: Places to Start

This is a real workspace!  Please edit this page, add your own Universal Design ideas, and invite others to use this workspace with you.

What follows is a long list of UD suggestions, organized according to some of the different modes of “delivery” or styles of teaching in higher education.  You aren’t expected to read this entire list, really – you can jump in anywhere. 

This Wiki is connected to the article "Universal Design: Places to Start," published in June 2015 in Disability Studies Quarterly.

If the Wiki is not fully accessible to you, you can still access the list on the Disability Studies Quarterly site and email your comments, suggestions, and ideas to the creator of this Wiki, Jay Dolmage at: Dolmage@uwaterloo.ca. 

PLACES TO START: UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS 

PLACES TO START: UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION 

PLACES TO START: UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF GROUP WORK, COLLABORATION AND IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 

PLACES TO START: UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF LARGE ASSIGNMENTS 

PLACES TO START: UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF TESTS AND EXAMS 

PLACES TO START: UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF INTERACTION ONE-ON-ONE WITH STUDENTS 

PLACES TO START: UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN A LABORATORY SETTING 

PLACES TO START: UNIVERSAL DESIGN GENERAL SUGGESTIONS