Student Disabilities

IEP, 504 and accommodations for students with disabilities

The following policy clarification is included in every ACP course syllabus:

Student Disabilities

Every attempt will be made to accommodate qualified students with disabilities (e.g. mental health, learning, chronic health, physical hearing, vision neurological, etc.). First contact your school’s special education teacher or school counselor. You will work with them and use the information provide in our ACP Student Handbook – Student Disabilities to identify which accommodations require additional review through interactive discussion with your IU Accessible Educational Services (AES) Office. Note that services are confidential, may take time to put into place and are not retroactive; captions and alternate media for print materials may take three or more weeks to get produced.

Since there can be differences between IEP and IU course accommodations, ACP and the IU AES offices have identified which accommodations do not require additional review and approval from AES, as such accommodations generally will not fundamentally alter the ACP course objectives for students with a documented IEP (See Section B). Additionally, ACP and the IU AES offices have identified which student accommodations require students to contact their area IU AES office, for additional review and approval (See Section A). The student (and parents with the FERPA permission from the student) must initiate the contact with the appropriate AES office for any accommodations listed in Section A. Accommodations that Require AES Approval. Once the case has been documented with the IU AES, the faculty liaison in consultation with the ACP instructor are then able to discuss and provide the services and accommodations, timeline, and policies, as well as decide what may and may not be allowed for IU credit with each student’s situation.

Instructors or designated school contact will share with the appropriate AES office which students in the ACP course have been approved for any of the accommodations listed in Section B. Should an ACP instructor wish to discuss any of the generally approved accommodations in this section, they can contact AES.