What is Disability Support Services (DSS)?
The Office of Disability Support Services is available to any enrolled
Clarion University student having a documented disability. The
Office of Disability Support Services provides student with reasonable
accommodations as documented through evaluations. Appropriate
accommodations are individually based upon identified need. The
coordinator meets with these students each semester to determine the
effectiveness of the accommodation and to evaluate the need for any
further services.
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How to Access Services
1. Identification: Students are solely responsible for contacting
the DSS Office to request any accommodations or services.
2. Documentation: After a request is made, student must provide
documentation under the following guidelines:
- Completed by a licensed and/or certified professional
- Contains the evaluator's name(s), and title(s), testing date(s),
and student's age and grade level
- Includes any relevant test scores, other relevant data and
interpretations
- Is based on battery of instruments which addresses aptitude,
academic achievement and information processing (DSM-IV criteria for
learning disabilities and ADD/ADHD)
- Identifies the disability or medical condition and describes the
limits it imposes
- Contains current information (no more than 3 years old)
3. Evaluation: The student and coordinator will meet to determine
if the request is supported by the documentation. Services are
provided dependent upon sufficient documentation. Students need to
meet at the beginning of each semester to determine appropriate services
for the current semester.
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Where to Get Services
Coordinator: |
Jennifer May
jmay@clarion.edu |
| Location: |
102 Ralston Hall |
| Hours: |
Monday-Friday
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Closed Noon - 1 p.m. |
| Phone: |
814-393-2095 |
| Text
Telephone (TTY/TDD): |
814-393-2095 |
| Fax: |
814-393-2368 |
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What Services are Available?
Disability-Related Curricular and Test Accommodations may include:
- Extended time for exams
- Reader for exams
- Scribes for exams
- Word processor for exams
- Alternate test location
- Objective exams, when possible
- Essay exams, when possible
- Oral exams, when possible
- Word processor for written assignments
- Extended time for in-class assignments
- Taped lectures
- Tapes textbooks
- Notetaking assistance
- Sign language interpretation
- Assistive technology
- Priority registration
- Liaison with agencies (OVR, BVS)
** Accommodations are based on documentation, e.g.,
psychoeducational evaluations for students with learning
disabilities; medical statements for student with physical
disabilities or chronic health conditions, and need. The
nature of the student's disability, as well as the student's
functional limitation, is considered when accommodations are
determined.
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