EXAMPLE

To: Instructor

From: Pamela Parker, Coordinator, Special Needs

Date: August 29, 2002

RE: Reasonable accommodation for Student’s name, COMS 181. Please treat this information confidentially.

Please accept this memo from the Special Needs office regarding reasonable accommodation for student’s name. He/she requested reasonable accommodation as a person with a disability and supplied supporting documentation that validates the need for his/her requested accommodations. The need for the following accommodations, which were requested by student’s name, is validated by his/her documentation.

1. Student’s name may have time-and-a-half to complete college exams. Please place the exams at the Testing Center in the Academic Achievement Center. He/she will complete his/her exams at the regularly scheduled time.

2. He/she may complete the exams in an environment outside the normal classroom.

3. He/she may be allowed to use a tape recorder during lectures.

4. That he/she be provided an individual to read questions on college exams.

I’ve suggested to the student that he/she schedule a time to meet with you during your office hours. Should the student provide the letter to you during class, I would suggest asking the student to schedule a meeting to discuss the accommodations during your office hours. When meeting with the student to discuss these services, please ensure his/her privacy so others do not identify the student as a student with a disability.

Student’s name has been informed that accommodations are granted to ensure the student equal access under the law, but that they will not be allowed if they fundamentally alter the outcome of the program or class objectives. Should you have any concerns that the application of these accommodations might fundamentally alter the outcome of the class objectives, please contact me.

Also contact me if you have any questions or if you would like a “Students with Disabilities Faculty Handbook”, which details DMACC procedures for students with disabilities based on Federal Law (Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA) and Chapter 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Phone: 964-6850

E-mail: pjparker@dmacc.org

Office: Building 6, room 30

Thank you for your help.