We support faculty in ensuring students with disabilities can achieve their goals.
Yes, there's a manual.
Disability and Access Services is pleased to provide you with a downloadable manual related to teaching students with disabilities. Feel free to reference it as needed.
If you have any questions or concerns about content in the manual, please contact us.
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Ensuring your syllabus is comprehensive.
We suggest that faculty include the following language in their syllabi:
If you have a documented disability that requires accommodations, please contact Disability and Access Services at 410.837.4755 or das@ubalt.edu. The office is in the Academic Center, Room 111. The office provides reasonable and appropriate accommodations for students with documented disabilities. -
Understanding testing accommodations.
- Complete a Proctored Accommodated Testing Form for each quiz, exam, or test you give. This form allows you to indicate the time, date, and length of the test and to list any materials that will be allowed during the exam.
- Please work with us to support our efforts of scheduling the accommodated quiz, exam, or test as close to the date that it will be administered to the rest of the class to ensure the student with a disability isn’t given an advantage of extra preparation time over their peers.
- You determine, via the Proctored Accommodated Testing Form, how you want the test returned to you. Disability and Access Services will either deliver the completed test to you directly or will keep it locked in an envelope for you to pick up from the center. Students are not allowed to deliver their own tests. This helps maintain the test's integrity and supports the academic honesty policy of the University.
Other details:
- If a student with a disability needs to reschedule an exam due to the disability or due to another unforeseen circumstance, the student must contact and receive confirmation from you (via email) that they are granted permission to reschedule. You have the right to deny this request.
- Students are responsible for bringing their own blue books, calculators, or other materials, as their peers would do, to take the exam.
- Students will not be granted extended time if they arrive late for the test, since you, as a faculty member, cannot always grant this allowance in the classroom. If necessary, the student should discuss this with you.
- All students are proctored by Disability and Access Services, and any incidents observed by the proctor will be reported to the director who will inform you of the incident.
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Requesting interpreters for campus events.
Please communicate interpreter requests for campus events to Disability and Access Services via email at least seven calendar days prior to the event. Include the following information:
- name of requester
- office/division
- contact information (phone, email)
- title of event
- location of event
- length of event.
All interpreting expenses for campus events are covered by the center.