How We Can Help You
DAS partners with students and faculty to provide accommodations, resources, support services, and strategies to dismantle barriers experienced by students with disabilities or health conditions.
Accommodations
Accommodations are reasonable modifications, adjustments, services, and tools—tailored to individualized needs and barriers—designed to create equal access to learning activities, course content, and accurate assessment for eligible students.
All accommodations are determined by DAS through an individualized, interactive process that includes learning about your disability-related needs, reviewing available documentation, and discussing barriers and access solutions with you and your instructors. Approved accommodations are implemented in partnership between students, faculty, and DAS through an individualized process designed to support equal access while considering essential course and program requirements.
The list below is not exhaustive, but some examples of accommodations include:
Alternate Format Accommodations
Alternate Format accommodations provide eligible students with access to textbooks, handouts, course documents, digital content, and other instructional materials in formats that are accessible and usable based on disability-related needs. Alternate formats may include accessible PDFs, e-text, audio formats, screen reader compatible materials, enlarged text, Braille, or the use of assistive technology and accessibility tools.
Alternative Testing Accommodations
Alternative Testing accommodations provide eligible students with adjustments, supports, and access to specific tools for quizzes, exams, midterms, finals, and other assessments. Alternative Testing may be implemented in the classroom, online, or through the Disability Access Services Testing Center.
Classroom Access Accommodations
Classroom Access accommodations provide eligible students with access to tools, environmental adjustments, and participation supports that help reduce disability-related barriers in instructional settings.
Communication Access Accommodations
Communication Access accommodations provide eligible students with access to spoken, auditory, and interactive communication through alternative or enhanced methods of communication.
These accommodations help ensure students can effectively receive information, participate in discussions, engage with instructional content, and access college programs and activities. Supports may include sign language interpreters, captioning, transcripts, assistive listening technology, real-time transcription, communication devices, and environmental communication adjustments.
Course-Wide Access, Technology, and Tools Accommodations
Course-Wide Access, Technology, and Tools accommodations provide eligible students with access to assistive technology, accessibility features, adaptive tools, and instructional adjustments that support participation across a course. Unlike accommodations tied to a specific activity, these accommodations may be relevant throughout the instructional experience.
Equipment and Furniture Accommodations
Equipment and Furniture accommodations provide eligible students with access to furniture, ergonomic supports, adaptive equipment, and specialized workstation components that reduce disability-related barriers in campus learning environments.
These accommodations help ensure students can comfortably, safely, and effectively participate in academic activities by providing physical access supports that may not otherwise be available in standard campus environments.
Flexibility Consideration Accommodations
Flexibility Consideration accommodations provide eligible students with individualized flexibility relating to course policies, attendance, assignments, course activities, and deadlines.
These accommodations recognize that some disabilities may create circumstances where standard course structures, timelines, or participation expectations require reasonable adjustment to ensure equal access.
Notetaking Accommodations
Notetaking accommodations provide eligible students with access to tools, technology, and instructional materials that support the capture, organization, and review of course information.
These accommodations recognize that some students may experience disability-related barriers that affect their ability to simultaneously listen, process information, participate in class activities, and take effective notes.
Priority Registration
DAS supports students to have early access to course registration to better plan around the impacts of disability-related barriers.
Important Note About Accommodations
Accommodations must be implemented in a manner that preserves the essential learning outcomes, competencies, technical standards, and academic requirements of the course, program, or activity. Questions regarding whether an approved accommodation may fundamentally alter a course, program, or activity should be referred to DAS immediately. DAS will coordinate an institutional review involving appropriate academic and administrative personnel and will document the rationale for any determination.