Disabilities Services at Aurora University
Accommodations
What Is My Role in Obtaining Accommodations?
Students play a central role in arranging their accommodations.
Once students have submitted their documentation to the Center for Teaching & Learning
staff and reasonable accommodations have been authorized, the Center for Teaching & Learning
will generate letters listing appropriate accommodations for the student.
Students then have the responsibility to present those letters, along with
an AU Accommodations Checklist, to their professors. These letters contain
no specific information about a student's disability and history. They simply
identify a student as being recognized by Aurora University as a student
with disabilities and suggest a set of appropriate accommodations. Professors
and students then should meet to discuss the needs of the student. A professor
may choose to suggest alternative accommodations which still address the
needs of the student and better match the structure and goals of the course.
In this event, the professor and student are encouraged to approach the
disabilities services coordinator.
What Is a Reasonable Accommodation?
A "reasonable accommodation" is any accommodation offered
by a faculty member, department, or the university which enables a student
to participate equitably in a class and access course materials without
fundamentally altering the service being provided. Reasonable accommodations
may include testing accommodations (e.g., additional time, quiet environment,
readers and scribes), classroom accommodations (e.g., changes to the physical
environment of a classroom, adjustments in how material is presented in
class), providing course materials in an accessible form (e.g., readings
on cassette or disk, notetakers), or access to assistive technology (e.g.,
use of on-campus computers with adaptive software).
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