Accommodation Letters
If accommodations are warranted (based on recommendations discussed with the DSS office), letters to professors will be provided. At the beginning of each term a student wishes to use approved accommodations, the student must request accommodation letters from the DSS office. And each term the student wants to be accommodated, the student is responsible for giving each professor an accommodation letter.
The student arranges a meeting with the Disability Services office to prepare the letters based on documentation provided. Accommodation letters will not be prepared if documentation has not been submitted. If documentation and accommodation letters are on file from a previous term, the student simply must inform the DSs office that changes or modifications are not needed and s/he wishes to continue using the previous accommodations.
All accommodation requests, no matter what point in a term the request is made, must be made at the DSS office first. Professor will not grant requests for disability-related accommodations if a student has not presented him/her with a letter prepared by the DSS office.
If a student chooses not to disclose a disability to and or request accommodations from the DSS office, the student is responsible for the outcome and s/he cannot use his/her disability as reason for poor grades. Baldwin-Wallace does not waive essential program requirements or permit substitutions for courses deemed essential to its academic programs.