Accommodations and Services We Offer
Please note that all assigned academic accommodations granted to the student are determined by the level of the disability and its impact on learning. Warner University has developed a standard list of accommodations that are reasonable in nature to assist the student with a disability in achieving their academic goals. The following academic accommodations may be approved for a student based on the student’s level of functioning and documented disability requirements. This list is not exhaustive.
- Testing: This includes extended time for completing standard in-class examinations. The student can receive either time and one-half or double time to complete his or her examination.
- Human Scribe for Testing: This accommodation is needed for a student with a visual, cognitive, learning, or physical disability. The student requires assistance in writing down responses or filling out a scantron for an examination.
- Proctor: This accommodation is needed for the student with a disability who is eligible for extended time for completing an examination and if the student requires a separate testing site from the standard classroom.
- Extended Time Working on In-Class or At-Home Assignments: This accommodation involves the need for additional time to complete assignments that are outlined in the syllabus. The time frame for the student with a disability will be discussed with the disability support staff member.
- Use of Computer for In-Class Assignments: If the student requires the use of assistive technology, the student will be allowed to use the needed technology during the class session.
- Enlarged Print Format: If the student requires enlarged printed documents and/or presentations attributed to a visual, cognitive, or learning disability, this accommodation would be granted. Documents will be created and/or printed in the desired font needed for reading.
- Accessible Course Documents: This accommodation calls for the student with a disability to receive course documents in an accessible format. This format could be electronic or in an enlarged print format.
- Preferential Seating: This accommodation is granted if the student struggles with a visual, hearing, mobility, psychiatric, cognitive, and/or learning disability. The student may need to be situated closer to the professor to obtain course instructions and information. Also, the student may need to be situated closer to an exit for ease of access to restrooms and/or emergency exits.
- Accommodations to Physical Setting: This accommodation is granted to a person who might have a physical, sensory, or mobility disability and requires additional classroom space to navigate through the classroom or requires the use of adaptive equipment.
- Alternative Testing: This accommodation involves the need for a private testing location and a distraction-reduced setting for test-taking.
- Reader: This accommodation calls for the student to utilize a human reader to read all printed documents or assist with visual or cognitive tasks that call for a human reading voice output.
- Recording of Class Lectures: This accommodation allows the student to record their lecture sessions. The student is responsible for destroying/erasing recordings at the end of the term.
- Note-taking: This accommodation is granted to a student with a disability who experiences difficulty writing notes for her/his courses. A student will receive permission to record each course lecture each semester.
- Tutoring Services: This service is provided through the Academic Center for Excellence in a specific subject matter.
- Assistive Technology: This includes screen-reading, voice recognition, or other adaptive software or hardware.
- Speech Interpreters: This accommodation is granted to a student who is hard of hearing or deaf who requires speech interpreters for class instruction, examinations, and other academic-related campus activities.
- Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals: You may bring your service animal or emotional support animals to campus. You will need to provide documentation for your service animal alongside your application for accommodations. We also have a specific application for emotional support animals, found here.
- Verbiage reference https://berkeleycollege.edu/admissions/disability-services/index.html
