Eligibility for Disability Services

Cascadia provides reasonable and appropriate academic accommodations to enrolled students who have a documented permanent or temporary physical, emotional, or sensory disability. If you have a disability that affects you academically, you may be eligible for services. There is no minimal or baseline disability that you must have to receive services.
 

To receive disability services, you must provide professional documentation of your disability. Depending on your disability, the documentation must be from a medical doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist, neuropsychologist, school psychologist, or other professional diagnostician.
 

To find out specific requirements for documentation of your disability, please make an appointment with the disability services coordinator by calling (425) 352-8860 OR going to the Kodiak Corner/Student Services Center. 

Services That May Be Provided

Disability services and accommodations are provided on an individual basis. They may include:

• Accessible facilities
• Alternate testing (private room, extended time, or reader)
• Interpreters
• Note taking
• Scribes
• Reading services
• Digital voice recorders (to record lectures)
• Adaptive technology
• Ergonomic equipment
• Alternate format texts and audio books

Services Not Provided

Cascadia does not provide services or accommodations of a personal nature, such as personal attendants or prescriptive aids (for example, eyeglasses or hearing aids). Nor does Cascadia provide diagnostic evaluations of disabilities. You are responsible for providing diagnostic evaluations in accordance with the college’s policies and stated needs at your own expense. Writing and math tutoring are available to all students on campus; individual personal tutoring is therefore not available as an accommodation.

How to Receive Disability Services

To receive disability services:

• At least 4 weeks before the beginning of the quarter, make an appointment with the disability support services coordinator to discuss reasonable accommodations. If you give less notice, your accommodations may be delayed.
• To make an appointment, call (425) 352-8860 OR go to the Kodiak Corner/Student Services Center.
• Bring completed Application for Services to your appointment
• Bring professional documentation of your disability to the appointment.
• You must meet and maintain academic standards to continue receiving accommodations.