Overview
The Office of Disability Services offers comprehensive services for registered students who are blind or have low vision. Students seeking services must provide documentation of their disability as well as specific accommodation requests. Once ODS receives the documentation, students complete brief registration forms. In order to facilitate communication and receive academic accommodations, students should reactivate their files each semester.
Services Provided
To insure that all necessary accommodations are in place, such as text conversions or classroom assistants, students are strongly encouraged to register with ODS well in advance of the start of each semester.
Classroom Accommodations
The provision of classroom accommodations may include:
- Classroom or lab assistants
- Adaptive technology
- Alternate formatting (electronic, Braille, large print) for textbooks, handouts and visual presentations
- Course substitutions
- Readers
Testing Accommodations
Academic testing accommodations may include:
- Time extensions
- Reader
- Scribe
- Adaptive equipment
- Quiet testing room
- Alternate formatting (electronic, Braille, large print)
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Accommodations are provided to help compensate for specific disabilities so that faculty may evaluate the performance of students who are blind or have low vision by the same standards as other students. Students are responsible for contacting each instructor and for making specific arrangements with ODS.
