Accessibility Bites: Supporting Post-Secondary Students with ADHD

When:

September 25, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

2025-09-25T12:00:00-07:00

2025-09-25T12:30:00-07:00

Session Description

This brief session will offer practical strategies for creating learning environments that support students with ADHD. You’ll learn how to reduce cognitive load to support executive functioning, explore multi-modal teaching methods, and discuss ways to build flexibility without sacrificing accountability. Whether you’re designing a course or working one-on-one with students, you’ll leave with tools to better meet their needs and help them thrive.

Learning Outcomes

Identify key challenges faced by post-secondary students with ADHD
Select multi-modal strategies to support diverse attention and learning needs
Examine course elements that balance flexibility and accountability to promote student success

Schedule

Introductions and access information – 5 minutes
Key definitions – 5 minutes
Overview of multi-modal learning and cognitive load – 10 minutes
Building in both flexibility and accountability – 5 minutes
Wrap-up and ongoing learning: access statements – 5 minutes

Registration Coming Soon

This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and shared with course registrants. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation in this session will be recorded and the recording will be made available to other course participants.

About the Facilitator

Your facilitator for this session is Meg Ingram.

Meg Ingram (they/them) is a multiply-disabled accessibility advocate with a passion for project management, planning coordination, and equitable education. Drawing from their background working in both higher education and social services, they have a deep passion for carving out accessible processes and building meaningful relationships within and across sectors. Meg holds an M.A. in Sociology, with a focus in disability studies, from Queen’s University, and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Victoria.

This session is supported by Untapped Accessibility. Untapped Accessibility launched in October 2022 to support BC organizations comply with the Accessible British Columbia Act. A certified social enterprise, they have helped over 180 organizations reach beyond compliance and create more accessible organizations with comprehensive and innovative approaches to disability inclusion. They generate revenue for Open Door Social Services Society, supporting the non-profit’s mission to open doors to lifelong learning and career success for more people with disabilities.