To improve the bedside manner of physicians, a professor of sociology at the University of Calgary, Arthur Frank, wrote a book titled, \The Wounded Story: Body, Illness and Ethics.""
For nearly ten years, blind and visually impaired individuals in Michigan have been able to access news and current information by telephone, courtesy of Newspapers for the Blind.
Students who drop by the office may notice a few new faces decorating the hallways and offices of OPHS. Within the last few months, the office has hired two staff interpreters and a specialist.
Shy is not a word one would use today to describe Mary Tregoning; yet she insists she was quite reclusive in junior high and her early years of high school.
You have a paper due next week and the computer lab in your residence hall is open, but there are no computers with voice output systems for you to use.
Getting places on campus is a challenge for any student new to Michigan State University. The campus, over 2000 acres large with 40,000 inhabitants, is as large as many small cities.
The Office of Programs for Handicapper Students prepares and distributes a survey annually to the students we serve in order to ascertain what we are doing well and in what areas we need to improve.
MSU, particularly the Office of Programs for Handicapper Students (OPHS), can provide students with certain aids that they may require to have an equally accessible education.
Whether you believe you will need accommodations or are pretty certain that you won't, keeping your professors informed about your handicap is important for several reasons.
Students with brain injuries may work up to ten times harder than the average student, simply because of the difficulties created by the trauma to the brain.
Stress. It's a nasty word, even though it has five letters. If you are an incoming student at MSU, one of the things you will become most intimately involved with is stress.