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Students with disabilities face
barriers not experienced by their peers.
Accommodations are the alterations or modifications that
allow students with a documented disability to have equal access to
college programs and activities.
Accommodations do not change the nature or content of a
course but create a “level playing field.” In order to receive
academic accommodations students must have proper and up-to-date
documentation on file at the Registry for Students with
Disabilities.
Please be aware
that individual education plans (IEPs) do NOT carry over from
high school to college. An
IEP is NOT sufficient documentation of a disability. Proper
documentation must include assessments from qualified evaluators
such as educational psychologists. Proper documentation of a
learning disability must include scores from appropriate tests such
as:
Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale – III (WAIS-3
Woodcock
Johnson Psycho-educational Battery
Kaufman-Binet
Intelligence Scale
Stanford Test
of Academic Skills
All qualifying
documentation must be current (within 3 years) and must include a
diagnosis and a rationale for each requested accommodation. This
documentation is confidential and kept on file at the Registry for
Students with Disabilities.
At the
beginning of each semester students must check in with the Academic
Coordinator for Students with Disabilities to review the
documentation and discuss accommodations.
Accommodations
may include extended time for exams, assistance with note taking,
permission to tape lectures, tape recorded textbooks, and spelling
aids. Other
accommodations are available based on the specific disability.
For further
information, please contact Elizabeth Smith-Freedman at 508-626-4905
or efreedman@frc.mass.edu
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