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Welcome
to Barnard to all disabled and nondisabled students. Please
read the ODS Notice to Barnard Students and
complete the ODS Needs Assessment Form (via eBear) if you
have a disability and/or would like to be an ODS Accommodative
Aide. LD and ADD students should read Documentation of a
Learning Disability/ADD and forward their documentation
to ODS as soon as possible.
ODS
Notice to Barnard Students
Do
you have a permanent disability that affects one or more
of your daily life activities? Disabilities may include
hearing, mobility, or visual impairments, as well as invisible
disabilities such as chronic medical conditions (arthritis,
cancer, diabetes, kidney disorder, lupus, seizure disorder,
etc.), learning disabilities/ADD, psychiatric disabilities,
and substance abuse/recovery.
The
Office of Disability Services (ODS) also works with students
with temporary disabilities (illness, injury or hospitalization
of more than two weeks duration) where academic accommodation
or assistance may be needed. Please note that after matriculation,
the Barnard Student Health Service in Lower Level Brooks
(854-2091) should be notified of your temporary disability
prior to contacting ODS. Please refer to the ODS brochure,
Assisting Students with Temporary Disabilities, which is
available online at the Office of Disability Services website.
Who
Are We?
Susan
E. Quinby, Director
Colleen Reilly, Assistant to the Director
Olga Hrycak, Learning Disabilities Coordinator
Where
Are We?
Disability
Services
105 Hewitt Hall
212-854-4634 (voice/TTY)
212-854-7491 (fax)
ods@barnard.edu (email)
www.barnard.edu/ods
What
Can We Do?
- Provide
administrative/academic advocacy and counseling
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Help find volunteer/paid readers, notetakers, tutors and
other accommodative aides
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Assist in obtaining specialized aids and equipment, tape
recorders, wheelchairs,
assistive technology, etc.
- Arrange
informal meetings with other Barnard students with similar
disabilities via our E-mentors Program and PDA (Peer Disability
Advocates)
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Inform you of specialized funding sources, including:
ODS, Barnard, VESID (Vocational Education Services for
Individuals with Disabilities), CBVH (Commission for the
Blind and Visually Handicapped) and other public/private
resources
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Share our extensive resource collection of periodicals,
books, articles and videos
on disability-related topics
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Establish a telephone hook-up if you are restricted to
home or hospital on an extended basis
What
Can You Do?
Stop
by or call if you are interested in registering for services
and/or in serving as a volunteer or paid accommodative aide.
Our office hours are Monday - Friday, 10:00am - 4:30pm.
Our
aim is to provide support services to students, faculty
and staff which encourage Barnard students with disabilities
to become self-sufficient in managing their own accommodations.
ODS
Disability-Related Housing Request
As stated
in the Barnard catalogue, housing options for Barnard students
include traditional dormitories, suite arrangements, and
apartments in College-owned buildings adjacent to the campus.
All resident Barnard students are expected to follow housing
policies and procedures developed by the Office of Residential
Life and Housing. Incoming disabled and nondisabled first-year students
are required to live in multiple rooms in traditional corridor-type
dormitories; roommate selection is based on individual questionnaires
distributed to all first-year students during the summer
prior to their fall admission. Transfer students are housed
based on availability, and are traditionally placed in multiple
rooms.
For
students who need wheelchair-accessible housing, there are
two options. Rooms on the fifth and sixth floors of Hewitt
have been modified as suites of two single rooms with an
adjoining bath with roll-in shower facilities. In Sulzberger
Hall, there are modified spaces available as corridor-style
doubles for first-year students and in tower suites for
students in the upper classes. Communal baths have accessible
fixtures and roll-in showers.
Students
who are not wheelchair-users but require some type of specialized
housing related to disability (additional space for medical
equipment, access to private bath, proximity to cafeteria,
etc.) may also apply for these spaces. However, disabled
students who are not wheelchair users may be relocated if
necessary in the event that a wheelchair user needs an accessible
room.
A
limited number of accessible spaces are available. The following
steps should be completed in order:
- Submit
your own brief written explanation of your particular
disability and why it requires some form of disability-related
housing consideration. Students may email statement to
squinby@barnard.edu.
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Fax/deliver clinician’s letter certifying the disability
and reasons for needing disability-related housing accommodations.
Fax #: 212/854-7491. Please remember that the clinician
should have seen the student at least once in the last
calendar year.
- Schedule
a brief interview with Susan Quinby to discuss housing
needs. Telephone interviews may be arranged if travel
problems arise. Please call 212/854-4634 (voice/TTY).
Family members may not write clinician letter.
- Call
Ann Aversa, Housing Director (212/854-5561) for applicable
deadlines. Applications not completed by housing deadlines
will not be accepted or considered.
Address
your requests to:
Office
of Disability Services
105 Hewitt
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
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