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What You Need to Register:
Students with different disabilities will have different documentation to share with us as part of registration. If you have a:
- a chronic health or mental health condition;
- a brain injury or post-concussive syndrome;
- a physical or mobile disability;
- a sensory disability or impairment such as blindness or deafness;
- a neurodiversity, ADD (or ADHD) or autism.
Our Student Accessibility Services Medical Form can be completed by a qualified health care practitioner.
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You can provide a recent, comprehensive medical/psychological report from an appropriate, regulated health care practitioner (e.g., an emergency room physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, neurologist) that outlines your functional limitations in an academic setting and your accommodation needs.
If you have been diagnosed with a Learning Disability/Disorder:
Provide a copy of your last psychoeducational assessment. Ideally this assessment was completed within the last 4 years or with adult norms (you were at least 18 years old when you were tested), however, we will accept older assessments as a starting point to register with our office.
If you graduated from an Ontario secondary school in the last 5 years, you can request a copy of your psychoeducational assessment from your high school.
A Note About Documentation
We recognize the historical and systemic disparities in educational systems and society can often have adverse consequences that further marginalize populations. They affect our students and their ability to provide documentation of a disability.
If you have experienced a barrier to receiving documentation, we are committed to working with you to find appropriate and creative ways of ensuring access to appropriate supports and services.
3-step Registration
- Collect your medical/psychological documentation.
- Upload an electronic copy of your documentation to our online Registration Questionnaire.
- Connect with an Accessibility Counsellor.
To have academic accommodations in place for the Fall 2024 exam period (December 5 to 20), your registration information (step 2 in registration) must be submitted to our office by Friday, October 11. We will continue to review applications after the deadline and provide support as capacity allows.
Not sure if you can apply?
To be eligible to register with our office you must have a documented disability/medical condition and/or a history of academic accommodation (e.g. an IEP) related to a disability/chronic medical condition.
If you are in the process of being assessed to determine if your academic difficulties are due to an undiagnosed disability, we can explore interim academic accommodations while your assessment is completed. Follow the 3-steps to register with us (your health care practitioner can indicate that you have been “referred for assessment” on our Medical Form).
Our office only provides academic accommodation planning for reasons related to disability. We cannot accommodate academically for religious commitments, carer responsibilities, short-term, acute illnesses (e.g. the flu), English as a Second Language, personal or family emergencies, work obligations and/or commuting.
Your study, time-management, writing or organizational skills may need some fine tuning for university- level studies. Or you may lack some of the knowledge (e.g. math, writing, science) required to succeed in your program.
The following can help you improve your skills and put you on the road to academic success:
- Learning Skills Services gives workshops and individual sessions on academic skills development such as time management and critical thinking.
- The Writing Centre offers instruction in all aspects of university-level writing.
- Bethune College provides academic support to science and engineering students.
- The ESL Open Learning Centre helps students for whom English is not their first language.
- Study Hub has a comprehensive list of campus supports, as well as information on how to find tutors and study groups.
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