Requesting Accommodations

Student Procedure for Requesting Academic Accommodations

Sudents with disabilities seeking accommodations MUST complete the following:

• Accommodations Application (PDF)
• Release of Information Form (PDF)
• Disability Verification Form (choose the one that matches your disability)
  • Acquired Brain Injury/Disability (PDF)
  • Attention Deficit Disorder (PDF)
  • Hard of Hearing/Deaf (PDF)
  • Learning Disabilities (PDF)
  • Low Vision/Blind (PDF)
  • Physical Disabilities and Systemic Illness (PDF)
  • Psychiatric Disabilities (PDF)
• Appropriate Disability Documentation (please see Verification Form for requirements)
• Accommodations Interview with the CCU Disability Services Coordinator
• Once the appropriate and necessary documentation has been submitted, call the Life Directions Center to schedule this appointment

Completing these academic accommodations procedures in a timely manner is of critical importance. It is the responsibility of the student to make his/her needs known in a timely manner to the Disability Services Coordinator. Reviewing and granting accommodations can take up to eight weeks. If your application is not submitted eight weeks prior to the beginning of the semester, some accommodations may not be implemented until the following semester. Once appropriate documentation is received, a Certificate of Accommodations will be produced for the student.

It is the responsibility of the student to provide their professors with a Certificate of Accommodations received through the Life Directions Center. A Certificate of Accommodations must be produced before accommodations can be provided. Accommodations do not apply retroactively.

Since education at the post-secondary level is voluntary, the Life Directions Center will provide accommodations to students, but cannot mandate that the student use these services. Students have the choice and opportunity to work or not work with the Life Directions Center for accommodations.

Common Accommodations

• Alternate location
• Extended time
• Reader for testing
• Testing in the LDC
• Use of word processor

• Braille Handouts
• Class Involvement
• Interpreters
• Note Takers
• Permission to audio tape lectures
• Seating Arrangements

• Access to the services of the CCU counseling center
• Advising (academic and career)
• Assistive Technology Lab
  • J.A.W.S. for Windows
  • Open book
• Audio book
• Early registration
• Meeting with Professors
• Peer tutors
• Regular meeting with an LDC advisor to monitor progress and effectiveness of accommodations
• Student advocacy training
• Study skills/strategies
• Time management training
• Word Processor for written work

• Excused Absences
• Personal Attendants
• Specialized Learning Disability Tutors

On-Campus Resident Accommodations

To request physical accommodations as an on-campus resident, please complete the accommodation application (PDF).