How to Request Accommodations
Admitted students with disabilities are encouraged to register with the Disability Services office to request accommodations. We strongly encourage students to begin the registration process as early as possible to ensure that the necessary accommodations are in place when classes begin.
To apply for accommodations, you must first be admitted to Wayne State College.
Step 1: Contact the Disability Services Office
The first step in requesting accommodations is to contact the Disability Services Office.
Contact the office at 402-375-7321, [email protected], or stop into the office located in the Student Center, Room 103.
Step 2: Complete the Disability Services registration form
You must contact the Disability Services office for the registration form. This form asks for information relative to the student’s request. It is useful and helpful information that lets the office know about your request, allows the office to determine how to move forward with the request, and know what type of documentation can be advised to provide to the office. Students are asked to complete the form as best they can, but if there are questions they cannot answer, or are not sure how to answer, that’s okay. Our office will talk through those with the student when we meet.
Step 3: Provide documentation of disability
WSC has established documentation guidelines to make accommodation determinations. Documentation is confidential information from an appropriately qualified professional who is knowledgeable about your condition. This professional might be a doctor, therapist, rehabilitation counselor, nurse practitioner, audiologist, mobility specialist, or another qualified professional with knowledge of how your disability impacts your daily life.
Documentation is used to better understand your experience of the condition, identify how it impacts you in the academic environment, and make informed decisions when determining reasonable and appropriate accommodations. Review of supporting documentation is utilized in combination with a conversation about your experience, history, and perspective to create an individualized accommodation plan.
Documentation can vary in length and format but should focus on the ways the condition currently affects you, especially in an academic setting. Below are some examples of useful documentation:
- Psycho-educational evaluation
- Neuropsychological assessment
- Individualized Educational Plan (IEP)
- 504 Plan
- Vocational Assessment
- Information on previous use of accommodations
- Statement from health or service provider
Send documentation to:
Email: [email protected]
Fax: 402-375-7058
Step 4: Meet with Disability Services staff
After the Disability Services Office has received the the necessary forms and appropriate documentation, students will be scheduled to meet with the Disability Services Coordinator to discuss their request(s). This discussion will be based around disability-related barriers experienced by the student, appropriate access solutions, and the process to use approved accommodations. Depending upon the nature of the request and related details, accommodations may be determined in as little as one meeting. For some students, determining and putting approved accommodations in place may require additional meetings.
Step 5: Accommodations in place
Once an Accommodation Plan has been completed and communicated to faculty members on behalf of the student, we strongly advise that the student meet with each of their instructors to discuss how the accommodations may look in each specific course. Disability Services Staff will also discuss with the student how any accommodations or services provided directly through the Disability Services Office will work for the student.