Creating an inclusive and supportive environment is essential for all students, particularly those who require accommodations through 残疾人服务. Here are comprehensive steps and strategies to ensure these accommodations are effectively implemented:

Understand challenges and solutions 

Engage with the student to understand their learning challenges and what strategies have been effective for them in the past. Examples of how a student’s disability can affect them in the classroom include:

 
  • 药物副作用: 睡意, 乏力, 口干, 渴, 视力模糊, 手颤抖, slowed response time and difficulty initiating interpersonal contact.
  • 环境刺激: Difficulty screening out sounds, sights or odors that interfere with focusing on tasks and limited ability to tolerate noise and crowded areas.
  • Sustaining concentration: 不安, 注意力持续时间缩短, distraction and difficulty understanding or remembering verbal directions.
  • 保持耐力: Difficulty sustaining enough energy to spend a whole day on campus, combating drowsiness due to medications.
  • Handling time pressures and multiple tasks: Difficulty managing assignments, prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines, with an inability to participate in multi-task work.

 
  • Interacting with others: Difficulty getting along, fitting in, contributing to group work and reading social cues.
  • Fear of authority figures: Difficulty approaching professors or TAs.
  • Responding to negative feedback: Difficulty understanding and correctly interpreting criticism or poor grades, potentially personalizing or becoming defensive due to low self-esteem.
  • 应对变化: Difficulty coping with unexpected changes in coursework, such as changes in assignments, 到期日或导师.
  • 严重的考试焦虑: The individual is rendered emotionally and physically unable to take an exam.

 

私下讨论

Always discuss a student's accommodations and how they will be implemented in a private setting. Note that a student may elect not to utilize all their accommodations.

Consult with 残疾人服务

If you believe that an accommodation might interfere with the intended learning objectives or requirements of your course, consult with 残疾人服务 for additional guidance and potential alternatives.

 

保密

Maintain strict confidentiality regarding students' accommodation needs, as mandated by federal laws such as FERPA, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Communicate with teaching assistants

Ensure that your teaching assistants are informed about the necessary accommodations for students in class, recitations or lab sessions.