Requesting Accommodations: Academic Life

Overview: Requesting Accommodations

It is your responsibility, as the student, to provide documentation and to request accommodations for your disability. When making your initial request for any type of accommodation:

• Complete and submit the Verification for Need for Accessibility Services form. Students, please be sure you provide your narrative information on the forms where indicated.
• Educational, clinical/licensed, and/or medical professionals providing documentation should complete the Evaluator portion of the Verification for Need for Accessibility Services form and/or provide documents that address the questions on the form.

Process for Requesting Accommodations: Academic Life

At the beginning of each semester:

Schedule a meeting with the Director of Disability Services. During the meeting, you will go over your schedule for the current semester and your anticipated accommodation needs.  It is important to meet each semester because your courses, instructors, and accommodation needs may change.

You will receive a copy of your academic accommodation plan for your faculty members by email.  It is your responsibility to forward the email to your instructors.  This should serve as your opportunity to discuss your needs with your instructor and, if necessary, to schedule a time for the two of you to meet with the Director of Disability Services for any clarifications.

During the semester

Changes may be made to your academic accommodation plan if necessary.  Your discussions with your instructors about your accommodations should be ongoing, but if you need additional documentation or other support from the Center for Academic Success, schedule an appointment.

If you are approved for testing accommodations, please consult the separate Test-Proctoring Guidelines.  Please be aware that it is your responsibility to initiate the request for test-proctoring 1-2 weeks before your test.

Please note that accommodations should be requested in a timely manner.  All students should expect that no accommodations, particularly for proctored testing, can be honored and/or arranged without one week’s notice. Waiting until the day before an exam to set up your accommodation plan for the semester does not allow enough time for your documentation to be reviewed, for your faculty letters to be prepared, for your faculty to be notified, and for testing accommodations to be arranged.

Provide Documentation

The first step is to complete and submit the  Verification of Need for Accessibility Services form. You may also submit testing results, IEPs, and 504 plans with the Verification form.

Mail Documentation to

Accessibility
Mail Stop: Accessibility Services
Lake Forest College
555 N. Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045
disabilityservices@lakeforest.edu