In This Section

• Overview of Services
• Policies and Procedures
• Eligibility
• What is LD and ADHD?
• Applying to UNC
• Resources

Important Information for the Fall 2009 Semester

• Accommodation Request Form If you are requesting accommodations for fall 2009 classes, complete the request form
• Priority Registration Request Form Complete this form if you are requesting priority registration for the spring 2010 semester.
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Policies and Procedures

Working with a Learning Specialist

Once you have become eligible, you will be assigned to work with one of the Learning Specialists who will be your primary contact in the Academic Success Program. 

You will work with your specialist to determine the accommodations you will need for your classes, as well as any services, like coaching or learning strategies, you might want to use. 

Your specialist is available to problem-solve with you as well.  If you are concerned about a class or a professor, don’t feel as if your accommodation is helping or want to discuss a different accommodation, talk to your specialist.

Requesting Testing and Note-taking Accommodations

1.  Complete the Online Accommodation Request Form

2.  Schedule a meeting with your specialist if:

• you have only used ASP for one semester or less
• you have a question or concern you'd like to discuss
• you are requesting a change in accommodations previously used

 

Additional Steps for Testing Accommodations

1. Your specialist will approve your request or contact you if she needs more information. 

2.  Disability Services will contact your professor(s)

• Jim Kessler, director of DDS, will send an official letter via email to each of your professors in which they will be informed of your accommodations. You will be copied on this. 

3. You must meet with each of your professors for classes in which you will have testing accommodations.

If you plan on taking exams in the Disabilities office, both you and your professor must fill out and sign the testing accommodation planning worksheet.  After both you and the professor sign the worksheet, leave a copy with him/her.

Make sure you arrange the following with each professor:

• Exam delivery and return info
• Date and time in which you will take the exam with your testing accommodations at DDS.

4. Complete the online testing accommodation form.

Use the information from the testing accommodation planning worksheet you completed with your professor to complete the online test form.

DEADLINE:  You must complete the online testing form within one week of getting your accommodations approved, and no later than September 16th.

 

Additional Information for Note-taking Accommodations

• Before requesting a note-taker, make sure to first check out the course website to see what types of notes are already available online.  You can also talk to your professors or TAs and ask if they have another source of notes to share with you.
• Your specialist will contact you if she needs more information before approving you for a note-taker.
• You must request notes within the first three weeks of the semester (this deadline does not  apply to students cleared after the first three weeks).

Additional Information for Text-Reader Accommodations

• Once you have been approved to use a text-reader, your learning specialist will show you how to order an electronic copy of your book(s).
• If you’ve already been approved to use a text-reader, you can order books at the start of the semester (or even before) by logging on to the Moodle website (http://disabilityservices.unc.edu/eservice).  Follow the ordering instructions.