Student Accessibility Services
Academic Accommodations
About Academic Accommodations
Academic accommodations are legally mandated modifications, adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services that give a student with a disability an equal opportunity to benefit from the educational process.
Academic accommodations may include:
- Adjustments to classroom environment or task that allow for participation in the educational process
- Modifications to policies, practices, or procedures
- Accessible instructional materials and effective communication services
- Other adaptations or modifications that enable a student to enjoy the benefits and privileges of the university’s programs, services, and activities.
Common Accommodations
Accommodations are determined on a case-by-case basis through an interactive process involving student, SAS Staff, available documentation, and [at times] faculty.
- Extended testing time
- Alternative testing locations
- Alternate formatted textbook/materials
- ASL Interpreters
- Captioning
- Audio recording lectures
- Assistive technology
- Accessible furniture
- Priority registration
- Other accommodations as deemed reasonable
SAS Support Services
Information for Prospective and Current SAS Students
- Students are responsible and empowered to disclose their need for accommodation and their disability to SAS.
- Students can request accommodations at any time but are encouraged to communicate needs early and often.
- Accommodations are not retroactive and cannot address issues/concerns that have already happened.
- Students are responsible for utilizing approved accommodation to their discretion.
- Students must follow SAS policy/procedures for implementation of accommodation.
- Students must meet and maintain academic qualifications and essential institutional standards of a SCSU student.
- Students must follow the university’s Student Code of Community Standards.