Academic adjustments refer to changes in the academic environment or the way things are customarily done to ensure students with disabilities have equal educational opportunities to participate in the most integrated settings possible. Provisions of academic adjustments by postsecondary institutions do not require institutions to lower academic and technical standards or substantially modify essential requirements. Students with disabilities and Disabilities Resource Center staff work together to implement academic adjustments.
Examples of Academic Adjustments at Santa Fe College:
- Alternative Testing
- Scribe for exams
- Calculator use for exams
- Early registration
- Service animals
- In-classroom breaks from prolonged sitting
- Leaving and returning to classroom on occasion
- Priority seating as necessary
- Placement of adjustable tables and/or chairs in classrooms as necessary
- Setting up accessible computer workstations
- Use of adaptive software or devices during exams