Overview
The Office of Disability Services offeres comprehensive individual services for registered students who are d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Students seeking services complete brief registration forms and in addition they
must provide documentation of their disability and specific accomodation requests. In order to facilitate communication and receive academic accomodations, students must reactivate their files each semester.
Advance arrangements must be made if any interpreter services are needed.
Services Provided
To insure that all necessary accomodations are in place, students are strongly encouraged to register with the Office of Disability Services well in advance of the start of each semester.
Classroom Accomodations
The provision of classroom accommodations may include:
- Sign Language Interpreting
- Sign Language Transliterating
- Oral Transliterating
- Other Specialized Interpreting
- Captioning
- Assistive Listening Devices
- Note Takers
- Course substitutions
Testing Accommodations
Academic testing accommodations (provided with appropriate documentation) may include:
- Time extensions (time and 1/2)
- Individual, private testing rooms
- Interpreter or Transliterator
Services are also provided for students outside the classroom such as study sessions, meetings with faculty, social activities, related or unrelated to coursework, or resident hall activities.
Accommodations are provided so that faculty can evaluate the performance of the d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing student by the same standards as other students. Students are responsible for notifying each instructor regarding his or her need for accommodations, and for making specific arrangements with the Office of Disability Services.
