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CS253 SDC

SDC

The Student Disablity Center (SDC), formerly Resources for Disabled Students (RDS), is in charge of accommodations and support for students.

https://disabilitycenter.colostate.edu/

Uniformity = boring

• We don’t all fit into the same mold.
• Blind students need assignments read to them, or translated to braille.
• Deaf students need the lectures transcribed or interpreted.
• Some students have trouble writing, and so need extra time for tests.
• etc.

The Effects

Classroom

Some students bring an interpreter or a service animal.

Tests/quizzes

Some students take tests or quizzes in a quiet room at the SDC.

Homework

Lab/recitation

In general, for this class, homework and lab/recitation schedules have sufficient time built in that SDC students are not permitted extra time.

I’m Serious

Again, for those who missed it:

• You get several days to do the labs.
• I discuss the homework in the first class of the week, and it’s generally due (except for the first, tiny, homework) Saturday evening of the following week.
  • Y’all never start until the day before it’s due, anyway.

The Process

• You discuss your medical/psychological/emotional issue with SDC.
• Show them documentation from doctors, mental health professionals, 504 plan, etc.
  • Not me! I’m an engineer, not a doctor!
• Reasonable accomodation are decided upon.
• SDC writes a letter detailing exactly what accommodations you get.
• You give me a copy of this accomodation letter.
• We discuss how this general letter affects this specific class.

Start this process early, well before you need it. The SDC is a bureaucracy, like everything else at this great university, and so things can take a while.

What this isn’t

• This isn’t about a short-term problem, like the flu or a broken leg.
• For something like that, let me know, and supply documentation, such as a note from a doctor or other medical professional, accident report from the police, etc.