Date: February 25, 2022
Featured Speaker(s)
Patricia Clarke Fleming, LMHC, CRC, is the Director of Baruch College’s Student Disability Services. Patricia is dedicated to ensuring CUNY students with disabilities have access to everything college has to offer. Patricia earned both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees at Hunter College. In 2008 Ms. Fleming served Bronx Community College as a LEADS Counselor (Linking Employment, Academics and Disability Services), and from 2010-2016 she was BCC’s Manager of DisAbility Services. Ms. Fleming serves as Secretary of the Bernard Baruch College Association, is a member of the Campus Intervention Team, and serves on Baruch’s Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion. Patricia served as co-chair of COSDI in 2016 & 2017.
Resources Shared
- Baruch student disability services: https://studentaffairs.baruch.cuny.edu/student-disability-services
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646508/demystifying-disability-by-emily-ladau
- Movies: “Coda”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366460 and “Sound of Metal”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363618/#:~:text=A%20heavy%2Dmetal%20drummer’s%20life,begins%20to%20lose%20his%20hearing
- Podcast: “The Anxious Achiever” (there are some episodes focused on programs that promote and support hiring people with neurodiversity)
- The forest timer app to help with staying on task: https://www.forestapp.cc
- CUNY resources on UDL: https://guides.cuny.edu/digitalaccessibility/universaldesign
- Baruch CTL website: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl
- Becoming a Student-Ready College: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Becoming+a+Student+Ready+College%3A+A+New+Culture+of+Leadership+for+Student+Success-p-9781119119517
- Disability Theory by Tobin Siebers: https://www.press.umich.edu/309723/disability_theory
- Disability Language Guide from Stanford: https://disability.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj1401/f/disability-language-guide-stanford_1.pdf