Disability Services

ABOUT DISABILITY SERVICES

Hiram College makes every effort to provide reasonable assistance to students with permanent or temporary disabling conditions. In providing support services to students with special needs, our goal is not only to provide the support that is needed in order to have the opportunity for academic success here at Hiram, but also to help develop both the functional skills and the skills of self-advocacy that will help students in their lives after Hiram.

Services Available

Hiram College provides the following assistance to all students through the Student Academic Services office, which includes but is not limited to:

Trained writing assistance
Individual and group tutoring options
Time management techniques
Study & test taking strategies
Memory retention techniques
Group study sessions
Academic advising assistance
Technology assistance

Student Academic Services can be found on the first floor of the Hiram College Library.

In order to request academic accommodations, appropriate documentation must be provided:

A self-disclosure form MUST be completed by the student and provided to Health, Counseling and Disability Services
Current documentation (typically prepared within the past three years) that provides an identification of the disability
Educational, developmental and/or medical history relevant to the disability
A summary of the testing/assessment that identified the disability along with scores of individual tests
A description of the functional limitations that this disability has upon the student’s learning and academic work.

A current IEP/504 plan is helpful in providing information about the type of support that has been helpful in the past, but it rarely contains the detailed documentation required. The College reserves the right to require more detailed or more current information when necessary. All documentation should be sent directly to Dr. Kevin Feisthamel, Director of Health, Counseling and Disability services.