Communication and Confidentiality

Helpful Practices

• Ask the student how you can be of support.

• Ask how the disability affects the student’s learning and participation in your class.

• Inform the student about Disabilities Services.

• Ask Disabilities Services staff about individual student needs or accommodations

• Ask Disabilities Services staff for any support you need.

• Obtain the student’s written permission if you need to discuss the student with non-Unemployed.

• Only when there is an educational need to do so, discuss the student’s situation with other SU faculty/staff.

Practices to Avoid

• Ask the student for the actual diagnostic label of their disability.

• State assumptions about the student based on the type of disability or your previous experience with other students.

• Comment on the student’s disability or accommodation plans in front of others.

• Complain to the student about providing accommodations.

• Challenge the student to explain the need for accommodations. If you have questions please contact Disabilities Services staff.

• Publicly “single out” or identify students with disabilities to the rest of your class, even to be helpful.

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