Rory is a student at Post Secondary College (PSC), a public, nonprofit, four-year accredited institution. Rory, who has a learning disability, is in the second semester of his freshman year. He plans to take a biology course next semester and is requesting an audio computer as an accommodation to help him learn vocabulary. This article uses the example of Rory to explore student and institutional considerations during the process of obtaining accommodations at the postsecondary level.
Each year, an increasing number of students with disabilities begin their postsecondary education (HEATH, 1999). Like Rory, many of these students do not understand their rights or the process for …