Accommodating Students With Disabilities An Overview for Undergraduate Students, Faculty, and Administrators

Students

Students wishing to request disability accommodations should identify themselves to the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources. Each student will need to complete a request form, obtain any necessary diagnostic evaluations, and provide documentation of the disability for which accommodation has been requested. Once an accommodation has been approved, each student will communicate the need for the specific accommodation to each course instructor at the beginning of every term, and work out the details of the implementation through dialogue with each instructor. A student should notify the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources if the accommodation is not provided. A student should also notify the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources promptly of any change in situation (whether due to improvement in the underlying condition, or the assistance of measures that improve functional capacity) that might warrant reconsideration of one or more approved accommodations. The University may also require reverification of a student's need for a specific accommodation.

The Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources will meet with each student making a request for disability accommodation to discuss the request and the documentation needed to evaluate the request. If the student has not already accessed the online disability accommodation materials, including the request form, the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources will explain those materials to the student and ask the student to review them carefully. The Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources evaluates and maintains all disability records. The Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources determines eligibility for accommodations, in accordance with University policy and standard post-secondary disability practices, and specifies approved accommodations to the student in the form of an official disability accommodation letter. As part of the process for approving accommodations, the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources consults with credentialed specialists in the field of disability accommodations, as he/she deems necessary. The Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources is available to faculty and staff for consultation on implementing approved accommodations and course/program planning to provide access to students with disabilities.

Faculty

Faculty members provide academic disability accommodations approved by the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources , upon receipt of an official accommodation letter signed by the student and the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources. It is the student's responsibility to present this letter to faculty at the beginning of each academic term. Faculty members receiving an unapproved request for disability accommodations from the student, or requests for extensions on coursework or testing directly from health and counseling staff should refer the student or staff member to the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources. Faculty are responsible for ensuring that each course is fully accessible to students with disabilities, including technology used in the course. Faculty should contact the Title IX Coordinator and Director of Disability Resources and/or ITS with any questions about making course content accessible. Faculty members are encouraged to include a statement about disability accommodations in each course syllabus.

Provost

The Provost has overall responsibility for disability grievance procedures, including the resolution of conflicts in the approval or denial of disability accommodations.

August 2016