The college provides services to students with disabilities to help them gain access to academic opportunities at the college. Counselors support and assist students in meeting their personal, educational and career goals. Services include academic and career planning, career assessment services, special orientation sessions, faculty/staff/student liaisons, assistive technology, readers, writers, interpreters and a support group. Assistive technology including closed circuit televisions are available in the college libraries, Student Academic Success Centers, and in the Counseling and Career Services Offices to assist students. Students with hearing impairments can take advantage of telecommunications TTY Super Print 400 phone equipment located in the Student Information Centers and the Counseling and Career Services Offices. The TTY Super Print phone numbers are Airport Campus Information Center, 822-3401; Beltline Campus Information Center, 738-7800; Airport Campus Counseling and Career Services Offices 822-3021; and the Beltline Campus Counseling and Career Services Offices, 738-7164. Additional TTY phones are located in the Airport Campus Academic Center; the Beltline Student Center and the Harbison Campus Continuing Education Center.
The college requests students notify Counseling Services of any special accommodation needs at least 30 working days before the first day of class. This notification will help ensure the quality and availability of services needed. The following procedures should be followed by students with disabilities desiring instructional, testing and administrative accommodations: Submit documentation and intake forms to the Counseling and Career Services counselor in order to verify the disability and to aid individual educational planning.
Intake forms and standards for acceptable documentation are available in the Counseling and Career Services Offices or at www.midlandstech.edu/counseling/csds.html. Please note that standardized documentation forms for ADD/ADHD, learning disabilities, physical/motor disabilities, psychological disabilities, and TBI (traumatic brain injuries) are available in the Counseling and Career Services Office as well as the Disability Services web page (www.midlandstech.edu/counseling/csds.html). There is also a link to this site available through the Counseling Services web page. These forms can be taken directly to a service provider to be completed.
After the information relating to the disability is received, the student must sign a release of information to implement the necessary accommodation(s) and/or to release information to involved college personnel. The following procedures will then be followed:
A committee of counselors will review the documentation and, if approved, will recommend reasonable accommodations.
The counselor will meet with the student concerning reasonable accommodation(s).
Appropriate strategies and suggestions for classroom and testing accommodations will be discussed and a Faculty Notification form listing needed accommodations will be given to the student to be taken to their individual faculty members.
For assistance, contact the Counseling and Career Services Office on either the Airport or Beltline campus. Special placement testing accommodations will be coordinated by the Student Assessment Office once documentation has been reviewed and approved by the Counseling staff.
*** The submission of documentation does not necessarily guarantee accommodations. Documentation will be reviewed and accommodations will be determined based on the guidelines provided by the Association of Higher Education and Disabilities (AHEAD).