Interactive Process Overview
To be eligible for reasonable accommodations, students are required to complete an interactive process with the Office of Disability and Access.
What happens during the interactive process?
- Student submits a request for accommodations (e.g., academic, residential, social) using the Accommodation Request Form found at the bottom of this page.
- Student schedules a meeting with a member of the Disability and Access team. This meeting, referred to as our primary documentation, includes getting to know the student: their interests, their strengths, their functional impacts, and their accommodations request. Questions asked may include:
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Tell me about yourself (hobbies, likes, dislikes, major, favorite courses/subjects)
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What are your strengths or what are you good at? What are you doing when you feel at your best?
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Where are some areas where you struggle? What does that look like for you across different environments?
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Do you know where that struggle comes from? Have you been diagnosed with a specific label?
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Did you have supports in the past? What did they look like? Were they helpful?
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What are you hoping for in college/now? What do you think will be most supportive for you?
- Do you currently have care providers who can support your accommodations request?
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- Student authorizes outreach to sources for secondary and tertiary documentation or provides information from those sources to Disability and Access.
- Secondary level: documentation from professors, guardians, and/or interpretations from disability professional’s expertise (e.g., ODA staff)
- Tertiary level: documentation from a medical professional (e.g., therapist, medical doctor, diagnostic testing, etc.)
IMPORTANT: The interactive process and approval of accommodations can take 4-6 weeks. Please submit an accommodation request form as soon as you think you may need supports from our office.