Eligibility for Accommodation Services

Lehigh Carbon Community College's Disability Support Services office provides access and academic accommodations for qualified students. Aqualified student is one who meets the requisite academic standards for admission or participation in college programs or activities. A studentis eligible for accommodations based on the following criteria:

1. The student makes the need known by scheduling an intake appointment with Disability Support Services. The student requests accommodations by discussing academic needs with the Learning Specialist by completing the student intake form during the appointment.

2. The student must submit appropriate documentation of a disability[see appropriate documentation section] indicating the nature, extent, and functional limitations of the disability as well as recommendations for reasonable accommodation in a post secondary academic environment.

3. Disability Support Services staff review documentation, determine if the impairment is substantially limiting, and determine if the student is eligible for the accommodation(s) requested. Disability Support Services will review submitted documentation and determine appropriateness of the documentation in addition to reviewing there commendations on a case-by-case basis.

4. When requests are deemed reasonable and appropriate, Disability Support Services will have the student sign an "Accommodation Memo" which identifies the reasonable and appropriate accommodations for the course(s) in which the student is enrolled.

5. Accommodations are based upon the student being "qualified," or able to perform the essential objectives of the program or course.

6. Accommodations requested by the student must be "reasonable." The accommodation must be an alternate way of displaying, conveying, or communicating knowledge or mastery of an objective in a course. An accommodation cannot lower the standards or change the objectives of the program or course.