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To receive academic accommodations, Skidmore students must identify the disability, provide adequate documentation of the disability and work with the coordinator of student access services to develop an appropriate plan. All information provided concerning a disability is confidential and is released only as allowed by law or by consent.

The guidelines outlined below are provided in the interest of assuring that students submit documentation that is appropriate to the purpose of determining eligibility 残疾人士服务. Skidmore requires documentation that supports each request for reasonable accommodations on the basis that a student's disability substantially limits one or more major life activity.

More documentation may be required depending on the range and variability of functional limitation within any given disability; less documentation may be required for permanent stable and/or narrow conditions. Documentation provided by a third party must be prepared by a (non-relative) professional qualified to diagnose and treat the impairment leading 致残疾. Documentation should validate the need for services based on the individual's current level of functioning in the educational setting. 在所有情况下， the student's personal accounts concerning their functional limitations will be considered as part of the documentation review.

As appropriate 致残疾, documentation should include:

诊断的声明

A diagnostic statement identifying the specific disability including identification of how the condition substantially impairs a life function, the date of the current evaluation and the date of the original diagnosis. Psychiatric diagnoses, including 多动症，必须包括 需求侧管理 diagnosis and a summary of current symptoms. Clear identification of a disability 是必要的. Language indicating preferred learning styles, difficulties or the possibility of a disability or diagnosis is not sufficient.

Diagnostic Criteria and Tests

测试 must be comprehensive and sufficiently recent to allow determination of the current impact of the disability in the college academic setting. 心理教育 assessment of aptitude, academic achievement and informational processing as well as neuropsychological reports should accompany a student's request for accommodation.

功能的影响

A description of the current functional impact on physical, perceptual and/or cognitive functioning should be described.

治疗

Currently prescribed treatments, medications, assistive devices and auxiliary aid and services should be included.

建议

建议 for accommodations should be supported by objective evidence of substantial limitation to learning and living in a post secondary academic environment. 学生 report of the efficacy of academic adjustments, auxiliary aids or services, or accommodations 也会被考虑.