New & Prospective Students

Yes.

If you are a high school student enrolled in the Early College or Jump Start program and plan to earn college credit for your coursework, you must apply for accommodations through 365球赛平台. A high school IEP or 504 plan cannot be used in the college setting.

At the high school level, accommodations are determined proactively through meetings with teachers, family members or caregivers, and school staff. However, in college, you are responsible for being your own self-advocate. You can still ask your family or caregivers for guidance and share whatever information you wish to with them, but the college will only directly communicate with you about your access and accommodations.

In college, you are responsible for using the disability accommodation process at Ocean County College to request and use reasonable accommodations.

We recognize that a person can develop or become aware of a disability at any time. For that reason, we do not have formal deadlines. However, the sooner we hear from you, the sooner we may be able to assist you with your needs.

Below are the suggested timelines for new accommodation requests:

Fall Semester

• Submit by May 30th to allow us adequate time to review your request

Spring Semester

Submit by December 15th to allow us adequate time to review your request

No, the Initial Accommodation Request should be completed by you, the student. You can have a family member or someone else help if assistance is needed. We will be communicating with you regarding your request, and it is important that we receive the Self-Disclosure Form in your own words.

Our application process is completely paperless. Please don’t drop off or mail any print materials unless our office advises you to do so. Documents that you will upload must be in PDF or Word format. “Portfolio” PDFs and secured PDFs which require a password are not compatible with our system.

If you require assistance scanning your print documents into electronic format, contact our office at accommodations@dbayscpa.com to schedule an appointment.

The accommodation process may require that we disclose your accommodation needs (though, not your disability) to certain faculty or staff members who are helping to implement your accommodations. This is only done when needed. We recognize your right to determine who receives this information and your right to confidentiality. Your disability-related records are not stored in any central student database at the college, only within our office.

No, you are not obligated to disclose what your disability is to your instructor or other course staff. If you receive academic accommodations, you will share an official accommodation letter with your instructors. The letter will detail your accommodations but will not state what your disability is.

No, your disability-status or registration-status with our office will never appear on your college transcript or any other official document from the registrar’s office. Neither will your accommodations.