»Steps to Register with Disability Services

In order to receive accommodations from Disability Services, you must provide documentation of your disability from an appropriate professional. If you already have detailed documentation, you can contact Disability Services to make an appointment and bring the information with you to that meeting. If you do not have any disability documentation, please follow the steps below.

HOW TO REGISTER


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1. Collect disability related documentation

In order to receive accommodations from Disability Services, you must provide documentation of your disability from an appropriate professional. Documentation can include, but is not limited to: formal evaluations/assessments from a licensed provider, doctor’s office after-visit summaries or letters, and/or previous IEP/504 Plans from high school. Please refer to our documentation guidelines. 

Students are also welcome to provide our Verification of Disability form to their medical or educational specialist to fill out.  

Please note, we do not accept prescription information as documentation.  

2. Create an Accessibility Profile in Accommodate

Click here to access your Accommodate profile.  

 Accommodate is our interface to manage students with accommodations at Chapman. This is an account available to students through Disability Services and is the same information as your Chapman e-mail/password.  

Once logged into accommodate, on the left-hand side, select: Accommodations->Approved Accommodations.  

Enter in what campus you are located on and click “Submit”! 

 If you are a newly admitted student/incoming student (not yet registered in classes and/or new to Chapman) and attempt to log-in to your Accommodate profile and receive an error message (e.g., profile not found/profile error) please contact ds@chapman.edu or call 714-516-4520 and we can support you. 

3. Upload Disability Documentation

After creating your profile, on the left hand side of your Accommodate profile select: Accommodation->Documents->Add New Accessibility Document

Students are able to upload multiple documents

4. Have an Intake Appointment

After submitting your documentation, our DS Team will be automatically notified that you have submitted and are interested in registering with our office! Our DS Team will review the documentation and e-mail your Chapman email address to schedule an intake appointment.  

 

Intake appointments can take up to one hour to complete. We will go over the documentation and discuss your strengths and weaknesses. We will see how your disability impacts your learning. We will agree upon accommodations that are appropriate and reasonable. Then we will discuss how to utilize the accommodations at Chapman University. Accommodations utilized in high school are considered but not automatically approved.