Interpreters or Captioning Services
- When choosing to use your accommodations, you must make an appointment with each of your instructors to discuss your needs. If you do not meet with your instructors, you run the risk of not having some or all of your accommodations provided in a timely manner.
- Be sure to provide a copy of your class schedule to your Coordinator in Disability Services well in advance of the start of each semester (at a minimum, two weeks). This is necessary to insure that interpreters or captionists are scheduled for each of your classes.
- Should you change your schedule (add or drop any class) notify the Coordinator so that changes can be made in the scheduling of interpreters or captionists.
- You are responsible for your own academic success. As such, you are expected to attend class regularly. If you are unable to attend class and you know in advance, please notify your Coordinator so that your interpreter or captionist can also be notified (at least 24 hours notice is needed to cancel an interpreter or captionist). You may notify your interpreter or captionist yourself, but please be sure to still inform your Coordinator.
- If you need to request an interpreter or captionist for any activities related to, but outside your regularly scheduled classes (e.g. meeting with a professor, study session), contact your Coordinator as soon as you are aware of the need. If you contact the interpreter agency or captionist directly (which you may do), please include your Coordinator in your communication (e-mail is preferred). If this activity is expected to be frequent or on-going (e.g. field experience, practicum), you must discuss the anticipated time commitment with your Coordinator as far in advance as possible (preferably prior to the start of the semester). If you anticipate that such activities may be required, you are encouraged to contact your professors before the start of the semester to obtain specifics.
- Any concerns or problems you have with your interpreter or captionist should be brought to the attention of your Coordinator.
- Captionists are not required to begin captioning until you arrive at the class or event. Therefore, any notes you may receive from the captionist will not cover the time you missed.
- If you have not arrived within 15 minutes after a class session or event has begun, the interpreter or captionist will leave.
Be sure to
register with Disability Services each semester to insure that your accommodations are in place when you need them! And remember, the earlier, the better!
