Documentation
THE USES AND PURPOSES OF DOCUMENTATION
Adapted from AHEAD:Association on Higher Education And Disability, Best Practices: Disability Documentation in Higher Education
Documentation serves two primary purposes in post-secondary education:
- To Establish protection from discrimination.
Non-discrimination is an assurance that students with disabilities will not be excluded or provided lesser access to programs and activities based on assumptions rooted in stereotype or perception of ability that are not based in fact. Non-discrimination also provides freedom from harassment based on perceptions of disability.
- To determine the accommodations to which the student may be entitled.
Disability documentation for the purpose of providing accommodations must both establish disability and provide adequate information on the functional impact of the disability so that effective accommodation can be identified. In the context of postsecondary education, documentation should provide a decision-maker with a basic understanding of the student's disability and enough information to anticipate how the current impact of the disability is expected to interact with the institution's structure of courses, testing methods, program requirements, etc.
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