Information gathered from a diagnostic student intake process. Information from appropriate college personnel regarding essential standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities. The array of accommodations that might remove the barriers. Whether or not the student has access to the course, program, service, job, activity, or facility without accommodations. That essential elements of the course, program, service, job, activity, or facility are not compromised by the accommodations.
Accommodations are interventions that allow the learner to indicate what they know.
Without the accommodations, the learner may not be able to overcome certain barriers. Test accommodations are designed to lessen the effects of the disability and to provide a fair and accurate measure of knowledge or expertise in the subject. Careful consideration must be given to requests for accommodations when the test is measuring skill, particularly if that skill is an essential function or requirement of passing the course, such as typing at a certain speed or turning a patient for an x-ray. In such cases, please contact a LAP counselor for guidance. The purpose of academic accommodations is to adjust for the effects of the student's disability, not to dilute academic requirements.