Personal Needs:
The University is not required to provide attendants, individually prescribed devices, readers for personal use or study, or other devices or services of a personal nature.

Personal needs that necessitate an attendant are the responsibility of the student. Students with such needs must retain a personal assistant. This may include but not be limited to assistance in toileting, being repositioned in chairs, placing medication in the person's mouth, or any personal service. Failure to do so may result in an administrative stop being placed on future enrolment until such time as the student demonstrates a personal attendant will be with the student to attend to personal needs.

We strongly recommend that personal attendants are trained and certified. Requesting such services from an untrained, random individual can be a safety threat to both the student with the disability and the individual providing the service. Methodist University cannot assume the liability of risk involved.

Readers:
When determined to be an appropriate accommodation for a student with a disability, readers are provided for test taking only. Otherwise, readers are considered a personal service and the university is not responsible to provide them.

Scribe/Typist for Papers or Exams:
The typing of papers is a personal service and is not provided by the university. However, for testing purposes, students with disabilities that limit their ability to write may be furnished with assistive technology or a scribe.

Additional examples of unreasonable accommodations may include, but are not limited to:

• Unlimited individual tutoring
• Waivers of courses that are essential to the program or core requirements
• Un-graded exams or exams on a pass/fail basis
• Excusing tardiness or lack of preparation
• Lowering passing scores
• Modification of class ranking
• Permission to re-take exams
• Permission to retake courses without record
• Information broken down into sequential form for testing
• Lowering of course load allowed
• Alternate test formats (Changing from multiple choice to essay, for example.)
  

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