A person may have more than one disability. A reasonable accommodation is a modification or adjustment to a course, program, service, job, activity, or facility that enables a qualified individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity to attain the same level of performance or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges as are available to an individual without a disability. Some common academic accommodations include extended time on tests, use of peer notetakers, use of computer with spellcheck, and provision of sign language interpreters. To become eligible, a student must have a documented disability and inform the College that he or she is requesting accommodations based on that disability. Information gathered from a diagnostic student intake process, and Information from appropriate MSC personnel regarding essential standards for courses, programs, courses, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.
Accommodations are interventions that allow the learner to indicate what they know.
The Learning Centre. Accommodations are designed to lesson the effects of the disability and are required to provide fair and accurate testing to measure knowledge or expertise in the subject. Careful consideration must be given to requests for accommodations when the test is measuring a 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 counselor for guidance. The purpose for such academic accommodations is to adjust for the effect of the student s disability, not to dilute academic requirements.