HIDC: High Incidence Disabilities in Higher Education Conference

The Ontario Human Rights Code requires students with disabilities be provided accommodations. A reasonable accommodation is one that serves to remove or ameliorate any barriers caused by a student’s functional impairment thereby allowing for equal opportunity to participate. Research into accommodations for students with MIs is in its infancy and offers limited direction as to effective and equitable accommodations for this heterogeneous group of students. This presentation will provide the results of an Ontario study that examined the instructional and test accommodations most frequently assigned to students with mental illnesses. The frequency of use of the accommodations will also be presented. These findings will then be evaluated for equity and effectiveness against the existing literature on academic accommodations for students with mental illnesses.