Reasonable Accommodation - Graduate Writing Center
Reasonable Accommodation
A reasonable accommodation is an adjustment, alteration, or change to the environment that ameliorates a disability-related barrier to academic performance. Reasonable accommodations do not significantly modify course curriculum; rather, they facilitate the completion of rigorous coursework.
At NPS: students can choose to discuss challenges and explore possible accommodations by reaching out either to individual faculty members or instructors, or to the appropriate NPS Program Officer.
Visible disabilities include mobility and movement challenges, or damage to or differences in limbs, eyes, and other parts of the body.
- Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) provides no-cost accommodations and equipment, such as speech recognition software, to federal agencies
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Invisible disabilities include traumatic brain injury, memory loss, cognitive challenges (such as dyslexia), chronic health conditions, chronic pain, post-traumatic stress, and hearing loss.
- Basic Information about Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion (website) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Importance of Team Support for Traumatic Brain Injury (PDF) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Understand PTSD (website) U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- What Is an "Invisible Disability"? (website) Invisible Disabilities Association