How to Use Your Accommodations
Requesting accommodations is a 4-step process. You can become eligible for accommodations by following Steps 1 and 2 below. Once eligible, you then need to register for accommodations each semester that you wish to receive them by following Steps 3 and 4 below.
1. Submit Documentation of Your Disability.
See this page: How to Qualify for Accommodations
2. Discuss the Results of Your Documentation Review
See this page: How to Qualify for Accommodations
3. Complete Registration Forms at the Beginning of Each Semester
Students who qualify for accommodations may find that their accommodation needs vary from class to class or from one semester to the next. This is why we ask you to register for accommodations each semester in which you wish to receive them. You do so by submitting a completed copy of the DR Registration Form.
- There is one DR Registration Form for Law School students.
- All other undergraduate and graduate students at WU use an online registration form, available after the start of classes each semester.
4. Deliver Confirmation of Your Accommodation to Your Instructors
Following completion of your registration forms, Disability Resources will prepare a Verification of Individual Student Accommodation (VISA), usually within 48 hours. This letter will confirm your registration and accommodations, but it will not reveal the nature of your disability. This letter will be made available to you electronically via TutorTrac, Cornerstone's online academic resource system, to which each student registered with Disability Resources will receive a login.
The final step in your registration each semester is for you to download and print your VISA, which you may present to the instructor(s) of each course for which you wish to use your accommodations. Do not place the letters in your professor's mailbox or give them to anyone other than your instructor. At delivery, briefly describe the contents of the letter to your professor. This will allow you to introduce yourself and to notify the professor that you are registered with DR.
If you do not deliver the VISA to each instructor, they will not know you have been approved to receive accommodations and will have no basis for providing those accommodations. Thus, if you want to receive accommodations you must deliver these letters directly to your instructors immediately. Waiting to deliver the letters until just before your first exam will jeopardize your ability to receive accommodations.