{"id":343,"date":"2013-01-17T00:29:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/?p=343"},"modified":"2013-01-17T00:29:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T05:29:49","slug":"aeo-and-its-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/2013\/01\/17\/aeo-and-its-new-name\/","title":{"rendered":"AEO and its New Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, AEO changed it\u2019s name from ODSS (The Office of Disability and Support Services) to AEO (The Office of Accessibility and Educational Opportunity).\u00a0 One reason the office decided to change its name is because they thought it would be more inclusive and welcoming than the previous name.\u00a0 One student claimed that the new name falls in line with AEO\u2019s tendency to market things related to disabilities without using the word disability, in hopes of not scaring students away.\u00a0 Some students like the new name and some don\u2019t.\u00a0 Those who preferred the old name have said that they feel as if the new name is \u201ctip-toeing\u201d around the issue of disability.\u00a0 However, others believe that new name might bring forward students who don\u2019t think of themselves as disabled, especially those who are new to having a disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, AEO changed it\u2019s name from ODSS (The Office of Disability and Support Services) to AEO (The Office of Accessibility and Educational Opportunity).\u00a0 One reason the office decided to change its name is because they thought it would be more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/2013\/01\/17\/aeo-and-its-new-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45312],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accessingvassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}