Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES)

This multimedia package of stories, graphics and visuals grew out of a class project in Professor Linda Bowen’s JOUR 410/Investigative Reporting course in Spring 2011. After the course concluded, several students working on the Daily Sundial wanted to see it through to publication. Additional students joined the project this academic year. Incoming Daily Sundial Editor-in-Chief Ashley Soley-Cerro directed the work, with assistance from editors Perry Smith, graphic designers Gabriel Ivan Orendain-Necochea and reporters Tanya Ramirez, Breanne Paskett and Jalima Maldonado. In addition, check out the CSUs statistics on disability resources for students and the 2011 National Center for Educational Services.

News

Increase in students with disabilities coincides with decreased funding

Looking back on Spring 2011, Quan Luong realizes now he couldn’t handle 18 units without help.
The former journalism major who has epilepsy registered seven classes – and six units more than the minimum for full-time enrollment – due to the priority registration he received…

Last DRES audit in 2003

CSUN has helped make disability resources more transparent, accessible and fiscally responsible since the university’s last campuswide audit, according to officials with the Disability Resources and Educational Services program, or DRES…

History of laws protecting students with disabilities

The American School for the Deaf, or ASD, America’s oldest permanent school for the deaf, represents one of the first attempts to recognize the needs of students with disabilities.
The primary and secondary school was founded in April 15, 1817, in Hartford, Conn….