Services
Accommodations are determined individually for each student through an interactive process and based on functional limitations. Examples of what DSPS may provide are:
- Assistive listening devices - hear lectures with sound amplification
- Keyboards and peripherals
- CCTV – magnifies reading materials
- Whiteboards
- Lockers – for daytime use to store books, backpack, equipment
Get textbooks and classroom materials in your preferred formats:
- Braille - brailled books and hand-outs
- Electronic text - PDF format or Kurzweil Library
- Print materials, including enlarged print
- Synthesized audio from text-only content
- Computer lab – computers available with assistive programs (such as JAWS, Zoomtext, Kurzweil, speech to text software)
- Voice recognition - watch text appear on the screen when you speak into a microphone
- Speech output – use computer to read written materials aloud (Kurzweil, JAWS)
- Screen enlargers - use software to enlarge print and images (Zoomtext, JAWS)
- Notetaking – coordination of peer notetaking, or support for independent notetaking using digital recorders and smartpens
- Preferential seating and adaptive furniture placement
- ASL Interpreters
- Captioning - spoken word converted into printed format displayed on a screen
- Audio description - narration of visual information
- Specialists - discuss your disability-related classroom needs
- Academic Counselor – discuss your academic goals, choose classes, and create educational plan
- Referral to campus and community resources
- Extended time - proctored tests/quizzes with extended time
- Assistive technology – screen readers (software that reads test aloud, such as Kurzweil, JAWS), screen enlargers (CCTV, Zoomtext)
- Scribe – staff to assist in handwriting test answers and filling out scantrons
- Distraction reduced testing environment
- Accommodated Testing Center
- Learning Disability Testing is not currently being offered
- Find out if you have a learning disability
- Discover your abilities and strengths
- Determine your limitations and accommodations to help you succeed