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Needs Assessment

Once adequate documentation is submitted, a student must make an appointment with the Director of Disability Services for a Needs Assessment.

 

The primary purpose of this meeting is for the director and the student to analyze the student’s needs and synthesize appropriate responses to those needs (accommodations).

 

A secondary, yet equally important, purpose of this meeting is for the director and student to get to know each other in an effort to develop a reciprocal relationship that will prove mutually beneficial throughout the tenure of the service oriented relationship.

At this meeting, the student will also be asked to complete a Disability Services Enrollment Application and sign a Release of Information.  A student may print and complete these forms and bring them to the meeting. 

 

Accommodation Letters

Accommodation Letters are prepared for a student based upon the results of the Needs Assessment.  To assist in the production of the letters, the student should provide the Disability Services Director a list of courses and professors.  The director and the student will complete the letters and the individual accommodations will be discussed. 

 

After receiving the letters, the student is to give them to the professors and discuss how best to implement the accommodations.

If time permits, the Needs Assessment and Accommodation Letters can be done at the same meeting.  If not, the student may leave a copy of his/her schedule and arrange a date to pick up the completed letters.