Support Plans--Identify the Accommodations To Be Allowed

Once adequate documentation has been submitted students must meet with the coordinator of Disability Services to create and sign individualized plans that list the different types of accommodations they’ll be allowed. Academic adjustments are listed on an Educational Support Plan (ESP). Facility accommodations are listed on a Facility Support Plan (FSP). Some students may have both kinds of plans. Only after the plans are created and signed do the accommodation actually become available.

Activating Accommodations (Support Plans)

Even after signing a support plan students still have to play an active role by making outward requests for every occurrence of an adjustment or accommodation. The staff and professors at UWRF do not attempt to monitor individual students for an effort to unilaterally know what they’ll need in advance. This is because all students have unique ways of making decisions to use or not use an accommodation, and many other kinds of variables can influence their decisions. So it’s rare that any students use an accommodation in consistent ways as time passes. It’s also rare that various types of accommodation may be available at a moment’s notice; virtually all of them are custom tailored and must fit circumstances that will only arise at a given point in time. 

Careful planning is required each time an accommodation is requested. Students must be focused on the procedures that are used to arrange their accommodations and be proactive about requesting them. We call these proactive requests the “activating” of accommodations.