Accessibility Resource Center


我们提供各种服务或合理的住宿,旨在减少残疾可能对您在传统学术环境中的表现产生的影响.

服务不会降低课程标准或改变学位要求,而是为学生提供更好的机会来展示他们的学术能力.

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ARC Resources 和 Accommodations

我们的服务

Academic Course Selection Advising
ARC的工作人员帮助学生选择课程,同时考虑到学生的残疾. 工作人员 can also provide advice regarding the academic 和 non-academic course requirements.

宣传
在确定和要求适当的住宿时,学生可以与教师和其他人一起练习自我宣传.

Alternative Exam Arrangements
考试的修改, 包括延长的时间, 并贴上用大号铅字排印的测试, 独立检测室, 或者使用阅读器, 抄写或电脑让学生有机会更好地展示他们对课程内容的理解,并在参加某些类型的考试时调整因残疾造成的限制.

辅助技术
学生可以利用一些辅助和适应性装置和设备来帮助弥补残疾状况.

Books in Alternative Format
Textbooks or any other printed class material may be obtained in alternative format.

Assistive Listening Devices
Persons who are hard of hearing may use the FM hearing assistance system. If you need to utilize the FM system in Galvin Fine Arts Center or the Chapel, please contact ARC.

Personal transmitters 和 receivers are available for the classroom.

Disability Service Provider
The disability service provider offers one-on-one support to students, such as skills instruction in strategies to compensate for a student's disability. The frequency of sessions depends on individual needs 和 staff availability.

课程替换
由于残疾的限制,运动机能学和第二语言课程可以选择替代课程.

注意接受者
If the student's disability interferes with taking notes in class, he or she can obtain a copy of class notes from a note taker.

Referral for Diagnosis of a Disability
该办公室可能会将怀疑有残疾的学生转介给地区心理学家或其他适当的专业人员进行诊断测试.

手语翻译
Interpreters can be provided for classes 和 other campus activities when requested. The ARC also ensures that all commencement ceremonies has an ASL interpreter present.

Non-Academic Accommodations
鼓励学生与ARC残疾案例协调员(DCC)会面,讨论额外的资源和其他合理的住宿. DCC还帮助学生通过请求非学术住宿的过程,如:无障碍停车场, 食品服务, 住房, 支持动物. 在批准任何非学术住宿申请之前,DCC必须收到证明文件.

文档的指导方针

学生被要求在确认入学后提出服务和/或合理住宿的请求. 可以买滚球的正规平台. To determine eligibility for services, ARC要求诊断医生提供学生残疾的最新和全面的文件, 精神病学家, 心理学家, or other appropriate professional. Submission of documentation is not the same as the request for services.

学生的学校计划,如个性化教育计划(IEP)或504计划可能不是足够的文件,因为St. 可以买滚球的正规平台, a postsecondary school, is 政府erned by different legal st和ards. 

St. 可以买滚球的正规平台 recognizes that currently enrolled students may have a record of a disability, be regarded as having a disability, or have a desire to be screened for a disability. ARC的专业人员将与学生面谈,并根据有限的信息为学生提供临时服务和合理的住宿.

没有适当文件的学生可以在他们认定为ARC的学期剩余时间内获得服务和住宿. 每个没有适当证件的学生都有一份当地医生的名单,如果要继续提供服务,预计在下个学期开始之前将获得适当的证件. 如果圣. Ambrose provides provisional accommodations, academic modifications or adjustments, it does not guarantee that the student will continue to receive those services.

St和ards for documentation are based on the guidelines used by Educational Testing Services (ETS). Appropriate documentation at St. 可以买滚球的正规平台应该:

  • Include the student's identifying information (full name, etc.)
  • Clearly state the diagnosed disability or disabilities
  • Describe the functional limitations resulting from the disability or disabilities
  • 是当前 ——也就是说,完成
    • 在过去五年内有学习障碍(LD)或注意缺陷/多动障碍, or
    • within the last 12 months for psychiatric disabilities.

(注:此规定不适用于永久性或不变性质的身体或感官残疾)

  • Include complete educational, developmental 和 medical history relevant to the disability for which accommodations are being requested
  • Include a list of all test instruments used in the evaluation report 以及用于证明所述残疾的相关子测试分数(此要求不适用于永久性或不变性质的身体或感官残疾)
  • Describe the specific accommodations requested
  • Adequately support each of the requested accommodation(s)
  • Be typed or printed on official letterhead or ARC verification form 签署 由合格的评估人员进行诊断(包括有关执照或认证和专业领域的信息)

Click here to access verification forms through the ARC门户页面

读 & 编写软件

读 & Write helps all individuals with reading, 写作, 组织, 和 studying regardless of ability or learning style.

The key functions of the software include: Screenshot 读er, 演讲制造商, 语音拼写检查, 语音合成, PDF大声, 翻译, 事实映射器, 声音笔记, 词汇构建器, 学习技巧和工具, 和事实查找器.

只有圣. 可以买滚球的正规平台 students, faculty, 和 staff have access to this software. 请浏览 ARC门户页面 for information 和 access to this software. 

Workforce Recruitment Program

残疾大学生劳动力招聘计划(WRP)是一项招聘和推荐计划,将全国的公共和私营部门雇主与渴望通过带薪暑期或长期工作证明自己在职场能力的高度积极的大专学生和刚毕业的残疾学生联系起来.

WRP为所有学习领域的残疾学生提供机会,向美国各地的潜在雇主推销他们的能力, sharpen their interviewing skills during a required one-on-one meeting with a WRP recruiter, 获得宝贵的技能, 经验, 还有工作上的联系.

Applicants for the program must:

  • 有残疾和
  • 是美国人.S. 公民和
  • 在认可的全日制高等教育机构注册,以获得学位或学位(除非残疾的严重程度使学生无法全日制学习)
  • 作为攻读学位的学生,在毕业或毕业前的注册期内少于全日制课程
  • have graduated from such an institution within the past year.

WRP每年进行一次,要求学生申请人在校园招聘访问期间与我们的招聘人员进行面试. The interviews take place during the fall semester of each year. The WRP is coordinated on college campuses by Disability Services or Career Services offices. 目前, 超过270所学院和大学参与了该计划,并且每年都有新的校园加入.

The school registration process will take place in the spring. If you are an eligible student, share this information with your school's disability services or career services coordinator, 和 ask him or her to contact the WRP Coordinator at wrp@dol.政府. Please underst和 that we work directly with college coordinators, 和 cannot respond to inquiries from individual students.

如果你的学院或大学没有参加WRP,你可以在你所在地区的参与学院或大学的校园里面试这个项目. The recruitment schedule is available under the Resources section of the WRP Website at www.wrp.政府.

The WRP is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability 就业 Policy (ODEP) 和 the U.S. Department of Defense's Office of Diversity Management & Equal Opportunity (ODMEO), with support from other federal agencies.

工作人员

瑞安马具商 (he/his), Associate VP for Diversity, Equity & 包容
林赛Ekblad (她/她),ARC主任

卡拉的豪 (she/her), Office Assistant
卡罗尔·麦科伊 (she/her), Disability Service Provider
迪尼Woerdehoff (she/her), Disability Service Provider
蒂芙尼主席 (she/her), Disability Case Coordinator

联系


林赛·埃克布莱德,主任

科斯格罗夫大厅25号
518 W. 蝗虫圣.
达文波特,IA 52803
563-333-6275
ARC@tareasgratis.com

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