Helping Students with Disabilities
Disability Resource Center (DRC) is the campus office that works with students who have disabilities (e.g. mental health, attentional, learning, vision, hearing, physical, or systemic), to provide and/or arrange reasonable accommodations and services. Accommodations include captioning, interpreting, document conversion, and testing. Services include computer accommodations, access assistants, peer note taking, and physical access.
Please see the documents below for additional information:
MELP Accommodations Decision Chart. This decision chart provides IEP and AEP instructors with some general information and questions to consider if they learn or suspect that a MELP student has a disability in order to determine if formal or informal accommodations are appropriate.
DRC-MELP Disability Accommodations Procedure. If a prospective or admitted MELP IEP student discloses that they have a disability that requires accommodations, Disability Resource Center (DRC) and MELP staff/faculty can use this procedure document to help make sure that the student can be as successful as possible while taking classes at the Minnesota English Language Program. This procedure document will also provide a general timeline and expectations for each department.