Disability Support Programs and Services (DSPS)

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Attention Los Rios Students: Each DSPS office will ask you to complete a DSPS program application. This will be the process until the district delivers a common DSPS application system for all four colleges. Thank you for your patience.

Disability Support Programs and Services (DSPS) provides equal educational opportunity for students with disabilities, among these physical, psychological, or learning disabilities. Students with disabilities are encouraged to lead active and independent lives by participating in as many college programs that meet their needs. Welcome to DSPS!

DSPS Counselors offer drop-in sessions to answer your questions in-person or over Zoom.

DSPS Drop-In Sessions

Accommodations

Accommodations for Individual Disabilities

Academic accommodations are interventions that students may utilize to obtain equal access to an educational setting such as a classroom, a course lecture or a lab. Accommodations are identified for each student on an individual basis. An academic accommodation may not be listed below as each student is unique in what becomes an appropriate and reasonable accommodation(s). The list below are examples. The student may meet with the program coordinator about a requested accommodation that was not granted. See the DSPS Coordinator for more information.

Low Vision/Blind

Readers and note takers
Test accommodations
Library or in-person class or lab assistant if applicable
Assistive software, audio book, large print, e-text or braille course handouts and tests in a useable format
Specialized equipment (see Assistive Technology Lab)

Mobility Impaired

Note takers and scribes
Classroom furniture if applicable
Test accommodations including: extended time and use of a computer

Hearing Impaired/Deaf

Interpreters
Note takers

Acquired Brain Injured

Note takers
Test accommodations including: extended time, distraction-reduced setting, and use of a computer

Psychological Disability

Note takers
Test accommodations including: extended time and distraction-reduced setting
Assistive technology as applicable (see Assistive Technology Lab)

Learning Disability

Note takers
Test accommodations including: extended time, distraction-reduced setting, and use of computer for word processing (with spell-check) and adaptive software (see Assistive Technology Lab)
Specialized tutoring and study strategies class
E-text

Intellectual Disability

Note takers
Test accommodations including: extended time, distraction-reduced setting, and/or use of computer for word processing, and/or adaptive software (see Assistive Technology Lab)
Specialized tutoring/study strategies and/or college life classes

Eligibility

The DSPS eligibility process involves the following steps.

Students must provide the DSPS program with verification of a disability.
A DSPS faculty member will review the information with the student and approve those accommodations or services that are warranted due to the limitations caused by the student's disability.
An Accommodations Form will be completed for each student listing the accommodations and/or services that are appropriate for that student.
For those accommodations or services that will be provided for a specific course, an Accommodations Memo will be completed and taken by the student to the professor detailing the accommodation. Disability information is confidential and may not be shared with course professors unless written permission is given by the student.

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