Disability Services Office

 
Documentation Requirements


The following guidelines are provided in the interest of assuring that documentation is appropriate to verify eligibility and support requests for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids on the basis of a disability that substantially limits one or more major life activities. The Director of Disability Services is available to consult with diagnosticians regarding any of these guidelines.

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 disability must include scores from appropriate tests such as:

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – III (WAIS-3)
Woodcock Johnson Psycho-educational Battery - III
Kaufman-Binet Intelligence Scale
Stanford Test of Academic Skills (TASK)


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 Disability Services Office. (see Documentation Criteria)

It is the responsibility of the student to request these accommodations on a semester-to-semester basis.
 
 
Related Links
  LD Online – College Prep
  Americans with Disabilities Act
  Disability Info.gov
  Massachusetts Office on Disability
  College Transition [pdf]


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