LCAD is committed to providing support services to achieve equal access to the education experience. Disability Services (DS) approves and coordinates accommodations and services for students with disabilities to help them acquire skills essential to achieve academic and personal success.
The Disability Services Office is designed to help students who exhibit significant difficulties due to a disability. We will support students to understand his/her/their limited abilities and compensate for them with ADA accommodations.
Here at LCAD, we want to prepare students for the future by practicing self-advocacy. The Disability Coordinator will help guide the student on that journey by utilizing all available resources.
Registration with DS is on a voluntary, self-identifying basis. However, services are only available after a student has registered and presents current documentation of the disability from an appropriate specialist or physician. All information and documentation are confidential.
Documentation
Students desiring academic support services for disabilities are required to submit documentation to verify eligibility under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. All assessment reports will be kept confidential with the Disability Coordinator.
The documentation must be based upon an evaluation by a healthcare or mental health professional, appropriately licensed by the state to diagnose medical, psychological, and learning disabilities. Such persons are usually physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and school psychologists. The documentation should include the contact information for the clinician.
A High School Individual Education Plan (IEP) or 504 Plan is also accepted as a form of documentation.
Please contact the Disability Coordinator if you have any questions regarding documentation.
Possible accommodations may include, but are not limited to:
- Priority Registration
- Extended Time on Exams
- Reduced Distraction Exam Rooms
- Recording lectures (per instructor’s approval)
- Peer note-taking
- Accommodation Letters to Professors
Please keep in mind, providing a requested accommodation depends on the nature and functional limitations of your disability, the particular class or classes you take, as well as whether the accommodation would fundamentally alter the nature of the course or program.
Please contact the Disability Coordinator, Lisa Villanueva, if you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment. She can be reached at lvillanueva@lcad.edu