Overview
The Office of Disability Services is proud to offer comprehensive, individual services for registered students with LD and AD/HD. Students seeking services must provide current documentation (no more than three years old) of their disability and specific accommodation requests. Once ODS receives the documentation, students complete brief registration forms. In order to facilitate communication and receive academic accommodations, students must reactivate their files each semester.
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:
- Notetakers
- Lab assistants
- Readers
- Specialized equipment
- Reduced semester course loads
- Course substitutions
- Adoptive computing equipment
- Alternative formatting (text on tape or CD-ROM, enlargements, etc.)
Testing Accommodations
Academic testing accommodations may include:
- Time extensions
- Quiet testing rooms
- Readers
- Scribes
- Adaptive equipment
Accommodations are provided to help compensate for specific disabilities so that faculty may evaluate the performance of students with LD and AD/HD by the same standards as other students. Students are responsible for contacting each instructor and making specific arrangements with ODS.
Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Support
The learning Disabilities Specialist offers support and counseling which includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Weekly individual meetings
- Time management skills
- Study skills
- Learning style enhancement
- Reading comprehension development
- Other academic and social counseling related to the individual's disability
