{"id":5248,"date":"2020-02-03T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=5248"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:18:47","slug":"uw-whitewater-launches-new-program-for-students-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-whitewater-launches-new-program-for-students-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Whitewater launches new program for students with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_02_LIFE_091218CS_involvement_fair_0578_2000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_02_LIFE_091218CS_involvement_fair_0578_2000px-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a UW-Whitewater student fair offering services to students with disabilities\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UW-Whitewater<\/strong> continues to be a national leader in providing exceptional services to students with disabilities. More than 1,000 students identify as having a disability at UW-Whitewater. This past semester, the campus launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/coeps\/departments\/life-program\">LIFE program<\/a> \u2013 or \u201cLearning Is for Everyone\u201d \u2013 which provides young adults who have an intellectual disability with a complete college experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_07_LIFE_121518CS_commencementIMG_0167_2000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5251 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_07_LIFE_121518CS_commencementIMG_0167_2000px-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a UW-Whitewater commencement cap: see the ability, not the disability 2018\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_07_LIFE_121518CS_commencementIMG_0167_2000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_07_LIFE_121518CS_commencementIMG_0167_2000px-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_07_LIFE_121518CS_commencementIMG_0167_2000px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_07_LIFE_121518CS_commencementIMG_0167_2000px-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/WHT_07_LIFE_121518CS_commencementIMG_0167_2000px.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW-Whitewater continues to be a national leader in providing exceptional services to students with disabilities. More than 1,000 students identify as having a disability at UW-Whitewater. This past semester, the campus launched the LIFE program \u2013 or \u201cLearning Is for Everyone\u201d \u2013 which provides young adults who have an intellectual disability with a complete college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[84],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-5248","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-whitewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}