centre for accessible learning
Airport security vs. CAL: Welcome to the accommodated life
July 31, 2025My palms sweat as my student ID slides through my hands. Butterfingers. As I draw nearer to the checkpoint, I feel the weight of a thousand bullets piercing through my skin. I wipe away a pound of sweat. I approach the Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL) checkpoint. “What’s your name?” demands an enraged lady with a clipboard. “Spit it out, I don’t have all day.” “My name is . . .” I try to respond, but she’s just so intimidating. “I said hurry up or else I’ll send in the dogs! They’re hungry for some students with accommodations; they have…
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Being sick shouldn’t cost this much
July 30, 2025One day, two and a half years ago, I woke up with agonizing pain in my abdomen. After hours of attempting to get through it — thinking it might’ve been a muscle cramp — I made my way to the…
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SFU needs to improve their accommodations system
July 24, 2025Between Burnaby Mountain’s poor transportation and the daily Stairmaster challenge, it’s no wonder the majority of students, staff, and alums think the needs of people with disabilities aren’t met at SFU. This includes those with invisible disabilities, which are any…
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SFU’s Centre for Accessible Learning is not accessible
February 7, 2021I recently delved into the process of obtaining learning accommodations from SFU’s Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL). But I was shocked to learn that receiving support would require weeks of my time and energy, and would only force me to…
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Being a visually impaired student in the age of COVID-19
September 21, 2020This article is part of an ongoing series about how disabled students have transitioned to remote learning and pandemic living. “I've done a video editing course, I've done graphic design being fully blind,” said SFU Communication student Jill Sloane. “We…
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