If you are an instructor, this is the place for you.
Students with disabilities have the right to equal access to courses,
programs, activities, services, and facilities offered at Texas A&M
University. Students are also entitled to reasonable accommodations. All
information about the student’s disability is to be kept confidential.
Students have the responsibility to provide acceptable documentation of
disabilities and to register with for Disability Services (DS) if they would like to receive accommodations. If
students deem it necessary to receive accommodations and for a
particular class, students have the responsibility to inform the
instructor.
An instructor has the right to confirm a student’s
request for accommodations and to ask for clarification about a specific
accommodation with DS. Instructors do not have the right to refuse to
provide an accommodation or to review a student’s documentation including
diagnostic data. Instructors have a responsibility to work with DS in
providing reasonable accommodations, keep all records and communications
with students confidential, and to refer a student to DS who requests
accommodations but is not currently registered. Instructors do not have to
provide accommodations for students not registered with DS.
An instructor has the responsibility to make reasonable
accommodations because accommodations make it possible for a student with a
disability to overcome barriers enabling the student to communicate what he
or she knows in the same way that glasses do not strengthen vision but help
a person to see. The instructor also has a legal responsibility to provide
appropriate accommodations. For more information go to the Americans With
Disabilities Act website
www.ada.gov.
To determine appropriate accommodations for a student,
the student must submit acceptable documentation to DS. The Documentation
Review Committee reviews the information and determines appropriate
accommodations based upon the substantial limitations of the student and the
essential elements of the course.
If an instructor feels that a particular student may
have a substantially limiting disability, he or she should refer the student
to DS.
A student with a disability who is disruptive in class
should be treated as an instructor would treat any student who is disruptive
in class. If an instructor feels that there is a medical reason for the
student’s behavior, the instructor can discuss this with the student’s
Accommodations Counselor in DS to determine if there is a solution to the
problem.
It is important for
instructors to remember that providing reasonable accommodations to a
student with a disability does not guarantee success in the course. Students
with disabilities may not master the course material, just like any
other student. Students with disabilities have the same right as other
students to fail as part of their educational experience.
Visit the DS Forms page for
downloadable copies of the Faculty Guide & Testing Condition Checklist.
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