Academic Services Center
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| Personal Care Attendant |
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| What is the responsibility of the college for personal care? |
| It is the responsibility of the college faculty, staff and administration to provide the academic or program access accommodations for a student with severe physical impairments. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to address the student's disability within the classrooms and service areas of the college. Accommodations are determined through the Disability Support Services office. Appropriate accommodations, for example, may include providing a note taker for class lectures, a scribe to record responses or complete forms, provision of adaptive equipment within the classroom or lab setting, assuring building and college accessibility, or any other type of reasonable assistance that will allow the student equal access to the college and its programs. |
| It is not the responsibility of the college to provide services to meet the personal needs (actions needed regardless of whether the person is a student or not) of the student. Example of those services may include, but are not limited to, transfer from a car/van to a wheelchair; transportation to or from the classroom; administering medication; and addressing toilet, feeding or dressing needs. |
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| What is the responsibility of the student? |
| Personal Care Attendants may be required to address the personal needs of the student thus allowing him/her to participate in college. It is the student's responsibility to hire his/her own personal care attendant and to secure funding for these services. It is the student's responsibility to have the personal care attendant registered at the Disability Support Services office and in place prior to any college-related activities, i.e. placement testing, enrollment, and class attendance. The college cannot be responsible for providing personal care attendant services on an interim basis until the student secures a personal care attendant. The Disability Support Services does not participate in the personal care attendant interviewing or hiring process. |
| Direction of the activities of the personal care attendant while at the North Dakota State College of Science is the student's responsibility. The personal care attendant must abide by the North Dakota State College of Science's student code of conduct. Personal care attendants will not be allowed to proctor tests. Personal care attendants may assist the student before or after classes but must wait outside the classroom while it is in session, unless given permission by Disability Support Services to do otherwise. If the student requests that the personal care attendant provide note taking services, the college cannot pay the personal care attendant a notetaker stipend. It is essential that the student have a back up personal care attendant or an alternative plan of action should the regular personal care attendant not be available to work with the student on a particular day or within a particular class. |
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