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Disability Services

The Disability Services provider on a college campus should be able to:

  • Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, and activities, and to evaluate students on this basis

  • Request and receive current documentation from a qualified professional that supports requests for accommodatins, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services

  • Deny a request for accommodation, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation does not demonstrate that the request is warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation
  • Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services

  • Refuse to provide an accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid or service that imposes a fundamental alternation on a program or activity of the college

In addition the responsibilities of Disability Services provider are to:

  • Accommodate the known limitations of an otherwise qualified student with a disability

  • Ensure that courses, programs, services, and activities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate setting

  • Provide or arrange accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in courses, programs, services, and activities

  • To maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communications, except where permitted or required by law

  • To maintain academic standards by providing accommodation without compromising the content, quality, or level of instruction

 

   
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