"How I See IT"
Keynote Presentation, CIC Accessibility Conference, June 13, 2011
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In this video, Dr. Timothy Cordes relays stories about his journey. He contrasts and compares the standard model of accessibility—an
if-then statement: If the student minus the disability plus the accommodation is greater than or equal to the task—to a
Computational model and to the Journey model.
The Journey model includes a faculty member and a student located in
different places:
"They're trying to reach each other. Each of them carries something with them—skills,
hang-ups, strengths, and weaknesses. But what this does is this acknowledges that question of accessibility and
questions of accommodations come down to people, and they come down to the people's strengths, weaknesses, their
choices, their hang-ups, and their actions. Now our attitudes are critical for this. Let me give you a couple of
examples of how attitude matters."
dr. Cordes is a resident in psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinic. He has an array of honors
and titles ranging from son, brother, husband, father, author, inventor, and trailblazing physician. He wrote a
computer program creatively called Tonal Interface
for MacroMolecules (TiMMol) that replicates 3D images using a range of audio tones
and spatial cues, allowing proteins to be visualized.
Dr. Cordes was valedictorian of his class at the University of Notre Dame in 1998, and was accepted in to the
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Science
training program, completing the notoriously challenging sequence that requires a student to finish both Medical School
and a Ph.D. level research program. Dr. Cordes shares his perspectives in this presentation called, How I See I.T. (IT)
or the double meaning, How I See It.
