Sometimes a student with disabilities may need to have a classroom location changed in order to have full access to your course. Most frequently, this is because an assigned classroom was not fully accessible for a student who is using a wheelchair for mobility, because the building is in a campus location that the student has significant difficulty physically travelling to and from because of the impact of their disability, or because the classroom lacks the technology needed for real-time captioning. If you have any concerns about the change, please contact ...
Yes. Students may request accommodations through other processes and offices, including the Title IX office (OPHD), Path to Care, and the Center for Support and Intervention. For questions about formal accommodation requests you receive for reasons other than disability, please reach out to the referring office with questions. More information is available at the ...
Students who work with DSP are strongly urged to request and send Letters of Accommodation as soon as they register for a course or become eligible for accommodations. However, the University must make an effort to accommodate students, regardless of the timing of the notice of a student's need for accommodations. DSP may be able to assist with late requests. Please contact the Disability Specialist who sent the student’s Letter of Accommodation if you need assistance.
Accommodations are not retroactive, so you are not responsible for provision of accommodations prior to the date that the Letter of Accommodation is issued. You do have the discretion to retroactively accommodate a student if you would like to. For instance, if a student becomes active in DSP in the middle of the semester and their Letter of Accommodation requires flexibility with assignment deadlines, you have the discretion to accept their late work from earlier in the semester. However, you are not required to do so. If you have any concerns about the...
Each Letter of Accommodation lists the name and email address of the Disability Specialist assigned to work with the student for whom the letter was issued. The assigned Disability Specialist is your best first point of contact in addressing questions and concerns you may have about an individual student’s Letter of Accommodation.
Instructors are not required to provide any disability accommodations in the absence of a Letter of Accommodation (LOA) from DSP. Faculty should refer students to DSP rather than provide informal accommodations. Informal accommodations may not meet a student’s disability-related access needs.
If a student is not yet active in DSP and has an immediate concern, instructors can provide the same consideration for extenuating circumstances that they would provide for students without disabilities. For instance, if a student breaks their hand the...
An accommodation is an adjustment to a practice or policy that removes a barrier that exists based on the impact of an individual’s disability in the context of the practice or policy. Academic accommodations allow for disabled students to have equal access to participate in their academic programs at UC Berkeley. While in elementary and secondary school settings it is permissible for accommodations to change the goals and standards of the curriculum, in the postsecondary setting, instructors are not required to fundamentally alter their course goals or standards in order...
Not every student with a disability attending UC Berkeley is utilizing DSP services. The decision to connect with DSP is an individual choice for students with disabilities. If a disabled student believes that they will require accommodations to have equal access to participate in their academic program at UC Berkeley, they need to take the formal step of applying for accommodations.
Students first apply online to create an account with DSP that will allow DSP to keep their disability records separate from their academic and other campus...
