Accessibility Services for Students with Disabilities
At Selkirk College, we are committed to providing an accessible learning environment where all students feel welcome, can access learning and can demonstrate their knowledge. We recognize that every student has unique needs and abilities.
Our Mission
We recognize that the impact of disabilities can make attending College more challenging. We are committed to working with students, faculty, and staff to maximize the accessibility of students learning experience at our college. The supports offered through Accessibility Services are intended to ensure that students with disabilities can participate fully in their course or program.
We work collaboratively with students, instructors, and college staff to remove barriers and foster learning by providing access to reasonable academic accommodations and other learning supports so that the learning environment is more responsive to students’ abilities and learning needs.
What is our duty to accommodate?
How are reasonable accommodations made?
Confidentiality & How to Maintain it
Accommodation Process & Instructors Role
Arranging Exams for Elligible Students
What Accessibility Services for Students with Disabilities Offers
- Accessibility Services offers a wide variety of helpful academic accommodations, and other supports and resources for students with documented disabilities, based on their individual needs. Accessibility Services are available on all campuses and Extension Centres.
- Eligibility for academic accommodations is based on the information provided in a student’s documentation of disability.
- Services available include:
- Transition planning support
- Support in accessing grant funding for students with disabilities
- Providing connections to learning and counseling supports at the college
- Collaborating with & supporting instructors to address students’ disability-related barriers or concerns
- Providing Information on relevant community resources and supports
- Providing information about assistive technology to help students access course material or produce their work, such as text to speech or voice dictation software
- Acts as a college resource for information on disability related issues for faculty, staff, students & their families, and community members.
- Potential Academic Accommodations, which students may qualify for, include:
- Access to textbooks and study resources in different formats, such as e-texts or audio
- Exam accommodations such as extended writing time and a distraction reduced environment for tests and exams
- Classroom supports such as note takers, audio recording lectures (view Agreement), and specialized seating
- Support in accessing adaptive technology to assist in completing course readings, assignments and exams
What to Expect from Accessibility Services
In Accessibility Services, expect to find an open, respectful environment. We are here to learn from students about their educational goals and to work together with students, faculty, and college staff, to develop a plan that will support their educational experience.
As such, we work together as a team with students, instructors, college staff members, and community members to support students’ learning. We value a proactive solution-based approach, and recognize that every student’s situation, experiences, and goals are unique.
We recognize that the information students share about their disability or medical condition is private. This information remains confidential.
Tools & Resources
Each of you will have students with disabilities in your classes or accessing your services. As with all students, students with disabilities have diverse learning backgrounds, educational goals, and personal characteristics, in addition to their disability related situation. Find more tools & resources here...