DSS should:
- Assist students with disabilities in understanding their functional limitations related to their disability and in recognizing strengths that help them compensate for their limitations.
- Understand what the student brings to the learning environment, and then identify services and accommodations on an individualized basis and in collaboration with the student and faculty member.
Video Clip: Individualizing Accommodations
Duration: 0.5 minutes
- Communicate to students what qualifies as a reasonable accommodation. DSS has the responsibility to ensure that students with disabilities understand that individualizing accommodations at the college level does not mean modifying the fundamental or essential skills and knowledge being taught, nor does it ensure success for the student in a particular course.
- Assist students with disabilities in exploring various accommodations that give them equal access to the course content.
Video Clip: Selecting Appropriate Accommodations
Duration: 1.4 minutes - Inform students about the availability of auxiliary aids and the range of possible modifications as well as the procedures for requesting them.
- Administer exams in a monitored and secure environment.
- Provide print materials in alternative formats in a timely fashion (5 Law). DSS has the responsibility to provide materials in accessible formats once they have been identified by the student and faculty member.
Video Clip: Access to Materials
Duration: 0.5 minutes
