ACCOMMODATING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

ACCOMMODATING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

Providing accommodations necessary for ensuring complete access to and full
participation in the educational process is not intended to require the
instructor to compromise academic standards when evaluating academic
performance. Rather, the accommodations make it possible for a student with
a disability to truly learn the material presented and for an instructor to
fairly evaluate the student's understanding of the material without
inference from the disability. Accommodations may include one or more of the
following:


  Preferential seating in the classroom
 
  Change of classroom
 
  Faculty member facing the class when speaking and/or wearing an assisted 
  listening device.
 
  Tape-recording of lectures and required readings
 
  Use of scribes and notetakers
 
  Use of signers (interpreters for people who are deaf)
 
  Provision of copies of overhead transparencies and lecture notes
 
  Enlargement of exam questions and notes, and required readings
 
  Alternative scheduling of exams
 
  Use of aids during tests and exams, e.g., calculator, dictionary, 
  thesauras, spellchecker.
 
  Alternative access to material covered in an inaccessible field trip
 
  Extra time on tests, quizzes and exams
 
  Tape recording of tests and exam questions by faculty member or student 
  assistant
 
  Tape recording the answers to exams and tests by the student
 
  Use of computers in class or access to computers for tests, exams and other 
  required written work