Services Available to Students with Disabilities

Accessibility of Campus Facilities

Many of the buildings at our historic campus have been retrofitted to be partially accessible to all students and visitors. Newer buildings were constructed to be accessible to all. 80% of all classrooms are accessible. We schedule classes in accessible classrooms to accommodate all students with restricted mobility. Faculty and staff with offices in older and still unconverted buildings are always willing to meet students in accessible spaces.

Accommodations for Students with Learning Differences

We are happy to provide accommodations for all students with demonstrated learning differences. Once professors learn about the appropriate accommodations for a particular learning difference, they work with each student to create the accommodations the student seeks. These accommodations take many forms, including extended testing, instruction in good note-taking, and taping of professorial lectures.

Our Process

Students bring documentation of tests and/or Individualized Education Programs from high school to the office of the Dean of Students Malinda Carlson, upstairs in Caine Student Center. Dean Carlson will review the documentation and send letters to each student’s professors, indicating appropriate accommodations. Professors and students are encouraged to speak about those accommodations a student wishes to use.

We recommend that new students provide Dean Carlson with this information as early in the summer as possible, so that she has time to read it carefully. We expect that the testing for a learning difference will have taken place within the past five years by a person certified to evaluate students for learning differences.

When students without any previous testing come to Dean Carlson with concerns about a possible learning difference, she will work with local evaluators to make testing possible. Once this process is complete, Dean Carlson informs each student’s professors about appropriate accommodations.

   

 

Illinois College
1101 West College Avenue
Jacksonville, IL 62650
217.245.3030

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