Student Roles & Responsibilities > Communicating with Instructors
Communicating with Instructors
While talking with instructors, you should:
- State that you have a disability, and explain your affiliation with SSWD
- If appropriate, make them aware of your past successes, and suggest how they could enhance your future success
- Discuss classroom accommodations, teaching techniques, and testing procedures that have been most helpful in the past.
- Make it clear that you are a serious, motivated student who will succeed in their class if a reasonable allowance is made for a specific problem you have in a specific area
- If possible, engage instructors in a problem solving process when solutions to the problem are not obvious
- Be on time for scheduled appointments
- Be calm and courteous, and do not interrupt
- Refer them to the SSWD Faculty Handbook.
While talking with instructors, you should not:
- Quote Section 504 or IDEA, or dictate policy
- Get mad
- Cry on their shoulder
- Request unreasonable adjustments, or make demands for large amounts of their time