Various support services are provided for qualifying students with
disabilities free of charge to the student. However, as a recipient of services
you are required to:
1. Contact Special Student Services to request accommodations.
2. Submit documentation of disability.
3. Complete and sign authorization forms.
4. Obtain identification card from office of Special Student
Services, which includes approved accommodations.
If using a NOTE TAKER, you must:
1. Attend all classes unless illness or an emergency prevents you from
attending.
2. If you miss more than three class periods without making arrangements
with
Special Student Services your note-taker will be suspended.
3. If you have problems with a note taker, notify Special Student Services
immediately so that a new note taker can be located.
If using READERS/BOOKS-ON-TAPE:
1. Provide Special Student Services with a list of classes you plan to take
and/or a list of the required texts for these courses as early as possible in
the preceding semester so that it can be determined if your textbooks are
available on cassette.
2. If a textbook is not available from Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic,
(RFB & D, Inc.), Special Student Services will record the text for you.
3. In the event books must be recorded or scanned by Special Student
Services, please supply this office with a class syllabus immediately.
4. Until cassettes arrive, you may have a reader from Special Student
Services.
5. Notify Special Student Services of any problem.
If using READERS/SCRIBES/PROCTORS for exams:
1. Notify Special Student Services a minimum of seven (7) days in advance of
the exam.
2. Arrange with your instructor to leave the exam in the Special Student
Services Office.
3. REMEMBER-you may be allowed up to double time to complete the exam. If
you
find that you generally need more time please notify your instructor so
that
arrangements may be made.
4. Readers/Scribes/Proctors cannot re-phrase or explain test questions
without
prior written approval of the course instructor.
5. Bring all items necessary for the exam (pen, pencil, scantron, blue book,
calculator).
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