Services Available
Here are the services we provide:
- Assessment of your disability accommodation needs, using the information gathered from your documentation and intake interview
- Communication with the college staff, faculty, and community agencies in behalf of ODS students
- Facilitation of referrals for support services on and off campus
- Assistance with problem-solving concerning barriers you may be facing
- Note takers in class
- Test readers or scribes
- Sign language interpreters and/or auxiliary aids
- Taped textbooks
- Adaptive equipment
- Classroom relocation
- Distraction free environment for testing
- Extended time on exams
- Accommodations for distance learning classes
- Temporary accommodations
Here are the services we do NOT offer
- Personal care attendants
- Personal study assistance
- Reader for personal use or study
- Equipment and software for off campus use
- Transportation to and from class
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. I received special services from the resource room in high school, will these automatically continue when I attend SUNY Orange?
A. No, they will not continue or be automatic. In order to receive accommodations you will need to contact the Office of Disability Services, identify yourself as disabled, provide appropriate documentation of your disability and meet with the office staff to plan accommodations you will need.
Q. Can my parents know about my academic performance in college?
A. No, not without your permission. We will require you to sign a release if you want our office to discuss your grades, behavior or attendance with anyone else but you.
Q. I may be absent a lot, will my professors excuse me?
A. Not really, in college the student is responsible for their work and keeping up with it. Each faculty member will have their own attendance policy. The law does not require excused absence be a reasonable accommodation. Even if you are absent for legitimate medical reasons you may lose points in your grade or fail depending on the classes' attendance policy.
Q. Why would two individuals with the same disability receive different accommodations?
A. Situations are considered on a case-by-case basis because the impact of a given disability on each person can be totally different in its effect.