All requests for ADA accommodations must be accompanied by documentation. Third-party documentation should be provided by a licensed or otherwise properly credentialed professional who has appropriate and comprehensive training, relevant experience, and no personal relationship with the individual being evaluated.
Student Responsibility:
- Students are responsible for requesting accommodations through sending an email request at the end of each school year via ADRC email.
- Accommodations are not retroactive. Accommodations take effect after all information has been reviewed and approved.
- Communicate with your instructors.
Guidelines to review and follow for successful completion of documentation:
- The document needs to be up to date. Depending on the kind of disability, different time frames are permissible. Documentation for assessments completed as an adult should typically be dated within three (3) years of the submission date.
- Documentation must be from a professional qualified in their area of expertise to evaluate a particular type of disability (e.g., physician, psychologist, licensed mental health counselor, psychiatrist, or audiologist).
- Document has clearly stated diagnosis. General descriptions such as "depressed" and "anxious" are not acceptable in front diagnosis. The use of phrases such as "implies" or "suggests" before a diagnosis is neither definitive nor appropriate for reporting a disability.
- It is necessary to include test results or an explanation of the diagnosis's process, a clear conclusion that it significantly affects academic performance or other significant life activities, and functional limits.
- Recommend specific accommodations requested.
Services received in high school via IEP or 504 may be significantly different at the university level. In the case of specific housing accommodations, we will need the above-mentioned documentations, with specific documentation for the need of provide accommodations.