[nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors

[Amy Sabo]

hello jordan and all,

in response to your note on having the dss office write a letter for you or not. as for me at my university it's the policy to have this done. it's called a faculty letter which states that i'm registered with the dss office and these are the accomodiations that i'm using in that class this semester.

it's a good way to have it in writing for technical issues. but, i still introduce myself to the professor at the beginning of the semester preferably after class. i tell them who i'am and these are the accomodiations that i will be using in their class. i ask them if they want this for documentation and most appreciate it and most don''t. it just with the person or not. but, is also a contract that if you have any problems with discrimination with the prof than they have it in writing that these are the accomodiations that you are to use and if they don't agree to them they have a written copy for their benefit and also from the dss office.

i also email the professor if i know who is teaching the class ahead of time. this is not always the case so i have to wait until the first day of class to do this. if you cannot talk to the professor after class which this does happen on the first day of class i email them as well too!

so, it just pertains to the rules that dss office wants you to do and their procedures for it. it's a good thing but, i don't let them take control of my needs i do it myself! so, there's some food for thought on this topic take care all and i will talk to you all soon!



hugs,
from amy

----- Original Message -----

From: Jordan Richardson 

To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list , MnABS listserve , WABS listserv 

Sent: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:58:51 +0000 (UTC)

Subject: [nabs-l] Accommedations Letter to Professors



hi all,

i just talked to the person at the DSS office today and one of the things

that we talked was the accommedations letter to the professors.  Now, i had

heard about this through Jeff Thompson and MnABS.  Is it better to have the

DSS office write the letter and send it to me for revisions, or for me to

just write the letter and to send it to my professors myself.  If i do the

latter, should i tell the DSS office that i will write the letter myself?

thx,



-- 

Jordan Richardson

lilrichie411 at gmail.com

“What is a friend? A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies”

--Aristotle

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