Accommodations for High School Students with Disabilities Enrolled in
PICC or Concurrent Courses
High school students with disabilities who are presently taking a course through Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) in their own high school classrooms and/or on campus may receive college accommodations. To do so, students must apply for accommodations and provide documentation to Accessibility Services. The reasonable accommodations that are written for students taking college-level classes are determined by an Accessibility Services Coordinator after they have reviewed the appropriate documents.
In college level classes, the curriculum will not be modified to meet the needs of high school students with disabilities. Those students are expected to demonstrate the same level of understanding of course material - and meet the same minimum skill performance standards - as all other students in the college class. Neither high school IEPs or 504 plans are applied at the college level but will be considered as documentation to receive accommodations. Students with disabilities are urged to meet with an Accessibility Services Coordinator before they begin the college course in order to determine what reasonable accommodations will apply and what resources are available. For more details about the differences between high school and college accommodations, please refer to the document: Accessibility Services: Differences Between High School and College.
All students, with or without disabilities, who wish to take a college course for credit, must comply with applicable college requirements:
• They must be otherwise qualified to do college level work
• Curriculum is not modified
• They must meet the essential elements of the course
• They must meet academic standards
All students who wish to have accommodations in their college classes must request services through Accessibility Services per their respective campus.
The following are next steps in this process:
The student or a staff/faculty member from the home high school may assist the student with completing an application at www.nicc.edu/hspacc for accessibility services.
The student must also submit documentation of disability. This documentation may be the student’s IEP, 504, or other documentation such as a Provider Form filled out by a qualified medical provider (psychiatrist, physician, therapist/counselor).
Once the application and documentation are submitted, the Coordinator will make arrangements with the staff member or student to to set up a conference either in person, Zoom, or phone to discuss accommodations. If the student’s documentation is not on file with the Coordinator yet, this discussion can still happen, but there will be no movement forward to finalize accommodations until documentation is received.
The Coordinator will finalize the accommodations when the documentation and the NICC application for accommodations are in place with the Coordinator and the accommodation discussion has been finalized.
The Coordinator will send the finalized accommodations to the student’s high school email. It is the student’s responsibility to present the accommodations form to the instructor teaching the college level class.
It will be the Coordinator’s responsibility to provide the high school counselor/case manager with a copy of the student’s accommodations.
For further information regarding Northeast Iowa Community College Accessibility Services, please contact: