Student Accommodations

At every Rutgers University campus or location there is an Office of Disability Services (ODS) to provide reasonable accommodations and services for students with disabilities. The ODS team members will work closely with each student individually in order to develop an effective and comprehensive plan for appropriate services and reasonable accommodations. ODS is dedicated to providing information and resources necessary to allow students…

Welcome to the Accessible Course Materials/Alternate Format Text (ACM/AFT) page. ACM/AFT is the term applied to course materials such as textbooks, electronic documents, exams and other print materials which students with print disabilities need converted into accessible formats. ACM/AFT may include but are not limited to: braille, audio, large print and electronic format. After being approved for ACM/AFT as an accommodation there are several steps you will need to complete.

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ACM stands for Accessible Course Materials. This accommodation is also known as “Alternate Format Text (AFT)". ACM is an accommodation that allows students to have the materials for their courses (e.g., textbooks, articles, exams, etc.) in formats other than how they are usually provided. 

You may need ACM if you:

• need to enlarge text or images to read
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Students should check the syllabi for each class to review their assigned books. For each book, they should follow these steps:

1. Check if the book is on Bookshare.
   1. If it is…

It is important that all events are accessible to individuals with disabilities. To learn more about best practices, please see our page on creating accessible events.

There are a lot of free applications that provide automated captioning. These tools have come a long way, and currently provide a 50-90% accuracy rate. You should…

Assistive Technology (AT) are solutions that help people perform tasks despite an accessibility barrier they face.  This could range from a software that reads your books out loud to you; to a setting your computer that makes text more visible. Some of these solutions take the form of software, other times it is hardware. Any AT we provide to a student must be approved as part of a student’s accommodations by their coordinator. 

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For questions, or assistance, please reach out to:

Gabrielle Land, MS
Program Coordinator
gbj13@camden.rutgers.edu
P: (856) 225…

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Every report submitted to the Office of Disability Services (ODS) for learning disability documentation must meet the ODS general documentation guidelines as well as including the following elements:

The report must provide adequate information about the student’s current level of functioning.  If such information is missing and/or outdated, the student may be asked to provide a more…

For any disability or condition which impacts physical well-being, such as, but not limited to: impaired vision, impaired hearing, impaired mobility, diabetes, Crohn’s Disease, etc., the student is required to provide documentation of the disability/condition. Specifically, it is recommended that our Medical Condition Documentation Form is completed by the treating health care provider.  If the form is not completed, any other documentation submitted must be…

Further information on the components of professionally prepared documentation such as: qualified professionals; diagnostic statements; diagnostic methodology; current functioning and current documentation; functional impairment; duration, progression, and stability of a condition; and documentation to support requested reasonable accommodations can be found at the following link: General Documentation Guidelines.

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• The Office of Disability Services uses a combination of information to determine eligibility and reasonable accommodations. Documentation of a specific disability does not translate directly into a specific accommodation or set of accommodations, instead reasonable accommodations are determined on a case-by-case and course-by-course basis.
• Ensuring that accommodations provide effective access requires a deliberative and collaborative process that is responsive to the unique experience of each individual…

Dragon Naturally Speaking by Nuance has become the leader in Speech to Text and Speech Command. They offer several different products, each which have been enhanced to fulfill a specific need. It is important you review the specification of each product to choose the right one for you.

It is recommended by Nuance to use Dragon Professionals Individual license for the desktop. This version has been optimize to control common operations on your computer. Specific software may require macros. For assistance with setting…

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Remember, submitting your Letter of Accommodation to your professor is step one in implementing your exam accommodations.  All students who have exams either online or in person should be submitting an exam request form.  Students should follow the Student Responsibilities for Exam Accommodation…