New Students
If a student wants to arrange for services and make use of accommodations, he/she must be registered with Services for students with disabilities. To do this a student must:
- Schedule an appointment with the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities.
- Provide appropriate documentation. Examples of professions who can supply appropriate documentation of a disability are:
| Licensed Practitioner | What they can diagnosis |
| Educational Diagnostician | Learning Disabilities |
| Psychologist/Psychiatrist | Learning Disabilities, ADD/ADHD, Psychological |
| Audiologist, Otolaryngologist (ENT) | Hearing Disorder |
| Physician | Physical or other health impairment, ADD/ADHD |
- Fill out your Request for Accommodation Form and:
- Pick up your Instructor Notification Memo as soon as possible (preferably, within the first few days after the semester/session begins).
- If the SSD Coordinator has determined that a reasonable accommodation for you is:
- extended testing time and you wish to test in the SSD Office - pick up a Testing Proctor Form for each class and follow the steps listed under Testing.
- alternate text format - fill out the SSD Alternative Text Request and follow the steps under Alternate Formats.
- Deliver your Memo (and Testing Proctor Form, if applicable) to your instructors as soon as possible, but no later than two (2) weeks of the start of the semester/summer session.
- Make sure that each professor or instructor signs the Faculty Receipt Form.
- Return the Faculty Receipt Form with with signatures from all of your professors to SSD office within two (2) weeks of when accommodations were requested.