Services

  • Maintains confidential student records regarding the disabilities of the students;

  • Receives and evaluates documentation provided by students verifying disabilities

  • Consults with students about appropriate individualized accommodations based upon documentation and arranges individualized accommodations for students;

  • Certifies Eligibility for Accommodation Services

  • Serves as an advocate for students with faculty or administrators

  • Arranges for students' use of auxiliary aides (devices or services that compensate for a disabling condition; i.e. qualified Interpreters or Captionists, assistive technology, etc.);

  • Provides information, academic advisement, and individual counseling to students regarding disability issues, their legal rights and responsibilities

  • Conducts informational and training programs regarding services to persons with disabilities for the university faculty and staff

  • Consults with faculty regarding the instructional needs of individual students with disabilities

  • Consults with other campus departments regarding the needs of students with disabilities (e.g. Facilities Management, Admissions, Registrar's Office, Student Accounts, Advisement and Counseling, Student Life, etc.)

  • Communicates information regarding program services to the campus community (e.g. brochures, relevant paragraphs in College catalog, Student Handbook, newsletters, etc.).

Accommodations Available

Before you can receive accommodations, a documentation review must be completed, and it must be found in this reviwe that you meet the requirements as defined by the ADA. Upon verifying eligibility, you may receive accommodations, some of which are included in the following list:

  • Priority registration of all classes

  • Assistance in scheduling classes in accessible locations

  • Note takers

  • Extended testing time

  • Testing in a private room

  • Readers and/or transcribers

  • Interpreters and/or captionists

  • Assistance in obtaining a Recordings for the Blind & Dyslexic membership (to obtain books on tape)

  • Library research assistant

  • Technology equipment that enlarges printed text (Closed Circuit Television)

  • A computer adapted with a voice synthesizer and a screen-reading program (Kurzweil 3000, and JAWS for Windows)

  • Dictate Dragon Naturally Speaking program, which provides voice to text capabilities

  • Network referral system of outside agencies which may further assist a student with a disability.

Examples of accommodations that are not made or arranged by the Disabilities Support Services Program:

ADA does not require colleges to provide personal assistants or personal assistive technology - this includes transportation services for students with disabilities. Whenever possible, the DSS Office will refer students to agencies which may provide personal assistance of that nature. Accommodations are not made which would reduce academic expectations, standards, or which would eliminate essential components of any course.

 
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