Join a panel of three UBC teaching faculty members, as well as STEPS Forward Inclusion Facilitators, who together are co-creating meaningful, student-led, and fully inclusive learning opportunities for UBC students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Inclusive Post-Secondary Education is a social movement in Canada to include students with developmental and intellectual disabilities, who have historically been denied access to higher learning, in Post-Secondary Programs and the higher education landscape. STEPS Forward is the organization doing this work in BC and has been partnered with UBC since 2002. The UBC partnership was initially considered a pilot program and was the first post-secondary institution in British Columbia to include students with these disability labels into undergraduate programs of study.
Panel discussion to include:
- Faculty of diverse backgrounds speak to their experience including a student accessing their studies at UBC through the inclusive post-secondary education partnership and the impact that fostering meaningful connection has on student belonging and learning.
- Disability justice framework on accessibility and inclusion, including framing inclusive practice and design as something that anyone can participate in, reflect on, engage with, etc. regardless of professional experience with students with developmental disability labels.
- How alternate and/or modified assessments are a tool to enhance student learning.
- Belonging and Connection as key pathways to facilitate learning.
Register For This Event
| Date & Time | Price | Select Item |
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| Online - December 11, 2025 - 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Free | Please log in to register |
Location
- Online
- Description/Notes
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- Will be provided upon registration.
Panelists
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Elizabeth Novak
Lecturer - Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land & Food Systems UBCV -
Stefan Sunandan Honisch
Sessional Lecturer from The Department of Theatre and Film UBCV -
Isabel Machado
Lecturer from The Institute For Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice UBCV -
Selena Mah
Senior Inclusion Facilitator at The University of British Columbia Point Grey through UBC’s Initiative for Inclusive Post-Secondary Education -
Elly Callele
Inclusion Facilitator at The University of British Columbia Point Grey through UBC’s Initiative for Inclusive Post-Secondary Education -
Ben Ross
Steps Forward, UBC
Upcoming Dates - "Belonging as Practice: Panel Discussion on the Impacts of Inclusivity in the Classroom and Beyond"
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- Online
- Date
- December 11, 2025
- Time
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am