DETERMINING REASONABLE ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENTS FOR COLLEGE-STUDENTS WITHLEARNING-DISABILITIES

Federal law and the implementing regulations have established that app ropriate academic adjustments must be provided to college students wit h learning disabilities in order to ensure meaningful access to higher education. However, federal law is necessarily broad and offers no gu idance in how to consider accommodation requests for individual studen ts in specific contexts. To address this issue, legal tenets from fede ral and case law were examined, and existing guidelines for weighing a ccommodation requests were reviewed. Recommendations were proposed for determining appropriate academic adjustments for college students wit h learning disabilities, and persisting issues were discussed.