What are “accommodations”?
Accommodations refer to support and/or adaptations, which will minimize the effects of the student’s disability and create equal access for the disabled student to demonstrate what he or she has learned, in an academic setting. Students have the right to request reasonable modifications to college requirements, services, facilities or programs if their documented disability imposes an educational limitation or impedes access to services, facilities or programs. A student with a disability who requests a modification, accommodation, or adjustment is responsible for requesting necessary accommodations by identifying himself/herself to the instructor and, if desired, to the DSPS office. Go to services/accommodations page.
Accommodation refers to ways in which the program or instruction can be modified to promote success of the LD student. Program modifications can include things such as priority registration, course substitutions, and limited units. Instructional modifications include taped textbooks, note takers, extended time on exams, use of a computer, calculators, spell checkers, taping lectures, assistive technology, etc.
