Supporting Students with Disabilities - General Guidelines

Introduction

Specific suggestions for teaching students with disabilities will be offered in the sections devoted to each disability. The objective of the following guidelines should always be to accommodate the student's learning differences, not to water down academic standards.

Attendance and Promptness - wheelchair users or students using other assistive devices may encounter obstacles or barriers in getting to lectures on time. Others may have periodic or irregular difficulties stemming from their disability or medication, therefore flexibility in applying attendance and promptness rules to such students is helpful.

Teaching Adjustments may be necessary, e.g. for students who lipread, it would be helpful if the lecturers speak directly toward the class.

Functional Problems - students with chronic weakness and fatigue may result in drowsiness, fatigue or impairments of memory.

Note-Taking - Students who cannot take notes can be helped by allowing them to tape record lectures, by permitting them to bring a note-taker to lectures, by making an outline of lecture materials available to them, or by assisting them in borrowing classmates' notes.

Testing and Evaluation - Some students may require the administration of examinations orally, the use of readers and/or scribes, extended time during examinations, modification of test formats, or, in some cases, make-up or take-CONTENTS exams. For out-of-class assignments, the extension of deadlines may be justified.

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