Regardless of a disability, impairment or condition, all students are responsible for fulfilling the essential requirements of courses/programs/ degrees, including meeting completion dates for assignments. While unlimited and excessive deadline extensions are unreasonable, some students have disabilities which can impact their ability to complete assignments as scheduled as a result of unpredictable or cyclical acute episodes. Per this, if students have a disability that may occasionally impact their ability to complete assignments and tests at the scheduled time due to random or cyclical acute episodes/flare ups, then flexibility in assignment deadlines is considered an appropriate/reasonable accommodation. In general, assignments with more than one week to complete can be done successfully with proper planning and management and only warrant an accommodation when an unexpected disability-related episode occurs that prevents the student from following through. This accommodation may be recommended when:
- An assignment was not listed on the syllabus initially and is given to students with one week or less to complete.
- An unexpected medical or physical episode of the student's documented disability with DSS interferes with the student’s ability to complete the work in the expected time frame (faculty is not to ask student for medical documentation - DSS already has this on file).