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Return to: Services for Students
Location
College Center, Room 164
Program Coordinator
Dana Jones, 970.339.6388
Providing equal opportunity is an important and shared responsibility at Aims Community College. The Disability Access Services (DAS) shares this responsibility by assisting students with documented disabilities in reaching their academic potential. Our office strives to accomplish this by providing qualified students with disabilities reasonable academic accommodations as mandated under ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Disability categories served by our office include, but not limited to:
- ADD/ADHD
- Systematic illness
- Deaf/Hard of Hearing
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Learning Disabilities
- Cognitive Disabilities
- Psychological
- Vision
- Physical Disabilities
- Services for temporary disabilities
If you wish to self-identify and request accommodations while attending any of Aims campuses, you will need to contact the DAS and arrange an intake interview. You will need to provide appropriate documentation that describes your diagnosed disability and current functional limitations. Based on the provided documentation, it will be determined which accommodations and/or services you are eligible to receive.
Examples of accommodations:
- Access to computer equipment
- Speech synthesizer with screen reading software
- Braille embossers
- Large print screens
- Voice recognition software
- Screen magnifiers
- Auxiliary aids and services
- Adjustable tables
- Assistive listening devices
- Audio books and players
- Manual Brailler
- Note takers
- Print enlargements
- Sign Language Interpreters
- Test writers and/or readers
The admissions processes at Aims Community College will not inform the DAS of your presence on campus nor your needs. Any new or returning student with a disability wishing to receive accommodations must contact the DAS at least four weeks prior to the beginning of the upcoming term to guarantee that services will commence as close to the start of classes possible. Please note that once your documentation and paperwork is submitted, the DAS will review the documentation and accommodation requests. Please allow 10-14 working days for a final decision. You will be notified by mail or e-mail if additional documentation is needed or if your request for accommodation was approved.
To request accommodations, you must submit:
- Current documentation of their disability
- A completed Student Intake form
- Request for Accommodations form
- A printed class schedule
- Alternative Text Request Form, if needed
Accommodations for all campuses are handled through the Greeley office.
For further information, e-mail disabilities@aims.edu or students may access the Web site at http://www.aims.edu/student/dac. |