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This page is currently in development. If you have questions about this accommodations please contact Student Accessibility Services in Orillia or Thunder Bay or the student's Accessibility Advisor, whose contact information is available on the bottom of a student's accommodation letter.

Experiential Learning Accommodations

Experiential Learning (EL) supports students in gaining hands-on learning that helps them transition to the workforce. Experiential Learning includes but is not limited to the following:

  • Field Experience 

  • Field Placement 

  • Internship

  • Professional Practicum

  • Labs

Access to Lecture Materials

The purpose of access to lecture material accommodations is to reduce barriers for students with disabilities and medical conditions, whose functional limitations impact their ability to capture lecture material. Students have provided specific documentation that indicates that their disability and or medical condition impacts writing/typing, auditory, vision, cognitive functions.

The accommodation that SAS supports for access to lecture material is;

Access to Lecture Materials Accommodation

The purpose of access to lecture material accommodations is to reduce barriers for students with disabilities and medical conditions, whose functional limitations impact their ability to capture lecture material. Students have provided specific documentation that indicates that their disability and or medical condition impacts writing/typing, auditory, vision, cognitive functions.

Alternate Format for Printed Materials

If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using standard instructional materials, you may be provided the accommodation of:

  • Alternate textbook format - to be requested by student & provided by SAS

If this accommodation is listed on your accommodation form please:

Print Accommodations

To reduce barriers for students with vision, cognitive disabilities and or medical conditions the student may provide medical documentation supporting the need for larger font size or a test/exam/quiz printed on a specific colour of paper. For example the Accommodation Letter could state;

  • Test/Exam/Quiz printed on: Light blue paper

  • Test/Exam/Quiz enlarged to font size: 18 pt

Scribe or Reader

Students with a scribe or reader accommodation face barriers to reading and writing (by hand or typing) due to a variety of functional limitations including physical, cognitive, vision, or medical/pain related to their disability and or medical condition. A scribe or reader accommodation is approved when technological alternatives, such as screen readers, text-to-speech programs, are not feasible either due to the time required for the student to become proficient to utilize the technology effectively or the nature of the disability.

Assistive Technology

Students may have accommodations for the use of assistive technology to remove barriers in “writing” or “reading” a test/exam/quiz; the use of this technology could be for physical, cognitive, vision, or medical/pain related functional limitations of a disability and/or medical condition. 

Genio for Education Information

Lakehead Student Accessibility Services will be using Genio for Education for some students to capture of lecture materials in the classroom. It is 'the study tool that boosts class engagement' and has an excellent record for both student and faculty satisfaction. As Faculty you may like to check out the Genio Faculty FAQ's.

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