To request academic accommodations, review and complete the attached Registration packet or register online using AIM, Springfield College's accommodation management portal.
Relevant and current documentation from a qualified professional is required to establish a non-obvious disability and disability-related need for academic accommodations. Review our Documentation Guidelines and share them with your treatment provider, if needed.
For students eligible to use memory aids as a testing accommodation for quizzes, tests, and exams.
Peer notetaking is a service provided to students with a disability-related need for notetaking assistance in synchronous course meetings. Upon student request, a qualified peer notetaker will be assigned by DAS to provide notes in a timely and confidential manner to eligible students enrolled in a course.
For students with permission to record or transcribe lectures for notetaking or communication access purposes.
The following hints and strategies might be helpful to faculty or others working in educational environments with Deaf or hard of hearing students and sign language interpreters.
Captioning or transcription services convert speech and audio information of multimedia content into a textual equivalent. Captions are time-synced and integrated into multimedia content, while transcriptions provide the text in full separately from the multimedia content.
The Academic Success Center provides test proctoring services for students who receive testing accommodations through Disability & Accessibility Services. If faculty are unable to provide the approved accommodations independently OR if the faculty or student prefer, eligible students may request test proctoring services in the ASC for any test, exam, or quiz to ensure that they receive their testing accommodations.
Reduced Distraction Location, is a testing accommodation used to support students with a disability-related need for a separate location that is quiet to take their tests.
Extended time of 1.5x (time and a half) and 2.0x (double time), is a testing accommodation used to support students with a disability-related need for additional time on tests, exams, and quizzes.
Attached are details about the ClearMasks we are providing to students, staff, and faculty who need access to visual cues from the speaker's mouth and face for effective communication access.
Fieldwork is considered any off-site educational experience associated with a student’s academic program, including practicum, internship, clinical, student teaching, or service learning experiences at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Students who meet the essential eligibility requirements of a field placement may need reasonable accommodations to access the same learning opportunities as their peers without disabilities.