Providing reasonable and appropriate academic accommodations when requested by students with disabilities. Our College may consider the following factors when assessing academic accommodations:
o The need to maintain the College’s academic standards;
o The existence of a public safety risk or a substantial risk of personal injury to the student with a disability;
o Whether a reasonable accommodation can be made within the College’s budget or through external funding sources.
An academic accommodation is a modification or expansion of the College’s instruction or evaluation strategies designed to accommodate the particular need of a student with a disability.
Academic accommodations may include, but are not limited to, the following:
o Testing
• Extra time
• Distraction free room
• Reader/scribe
o Adaptive technology
o Note takers
o Interpretation services
- Provide reasonable and appropriate service accommodations when requested by students with disabilities. In identifying such accommodations, our College may take availability of resources into account.
A service accommodation is a modification or increase in resources or services by the College to accommodate the particular needs of a student with a disability.
Students with disabilities who require academic services accommodations must:
• Identify themselves to Student Services at the College or to the College Admissions Service (CAS) during admissions prior to registration or in a timely manner.
• To help the College assess, plan and implement support services and appropriate accommodations, students may identify themselves and specify their particular needs by using the form available on the College website at www.nbccd.ca.
• Meet with our College Student Services Representative and in some cases the committee, to discuss the recommended academic and service accommodations.
• Maintain regular contact with the Student Services Representative during their time at the College. Students who acquire a disability, either temporarily or permanent, and students with disabilities whose state of health changes significantly during their studies at the College are encouraged to contact Student Services as soon as possible to discuss their needs.
Supporting Documentation for Academic and Service Accommodation
To assist Student Services with the identification and implementation of appropriate academic and service accommodations, students with disabilities are required to provide appropriate documentation or written proof of disability from a qualified professional, clearly indicating the nature of the disability. Qualified professionals may include, but are not limited to, family doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and school psychologists. It is strongly recommended that the recent documentation provide a list of suggested academic accommodations.
It should also be noted that the documentation or proof of disability is helpful, and indeed often necessary, when applying for external funding (for example, the Canada Study Grant (CSG) for Students with Permanent Disabilities.