Monday, September 15, 2025
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Navigate Accommodation Requests To Overcome Access Barriers

Veterans and their families encounter unique challenges and potential VA educational benefit barriers during their higher education journey – particularly disabled Veterans. Limited knowledge, resources, and support by institutional faculty, staff, and administration can sometimes be insufficient for the growing number of military affiliated students attending post-secondary education. 

Gather your colleagues who work with military affiliated students and join us for this interactive webinar on September 15, 2025, when our expert presenter will highlight the unique challenges Veterans and their families encounter and how this may impact achieving their educational goals. Learn how specific military status may impact medical documentation sources for Veterans seeking ADA/Section 504 reasonable accommodations and ways to remove biases and boost support services for these students.

Exceed the unique academic, social and career goals of your veterans and military-connected students through your reasonable accommodations process.  Equip your frontline faculty and staff with the resources they need to be advocates to help champion them every step of their educational journey!

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:

• Understand the differences between military and Veteran status and impact on appropriate medical documentation for reasonable accommodation purposes.
• Review institutional and departmental level policies and procedures related to coursework completion for deployments and permanent change of station (PCS).
• Educate faculty and staff on VA educational benefits for Veterans and families to include implications on dropped, incomplete, withdrawn, or course format requirements.
• Develop training opportunities for those frontline faculty, staff, and administration who interface with Veteran and military affiliated students to reduce biases and boost support services to meet their unique experiences.
• Establish an inclusive atmosphere that successfully transitions veterans to your campus, enables them to adapt to the academic environment, engage in the campus community and persist through to graduation.
• Create policies and procedures that support accommodation requests and self-identifying needs to better adapt to the individual and diverse needs of your military-connected students to ensure a campus culture that supports their holistic development.

Presenter

Desiree Klemm Esq. is a licensed attorney and a Post-secondary ADA and Section 504 Consultant. She has worked in an ADA/504 compliance-based role, specifically, higher education disability services, for over nine years and is an active-duty military spouse that has worked closely with Veterans and their families while navigating post-secondary education and benefits. Click here for full bio.