If you are a student with a permanent or temporary condition that may affect your ability to participate in, benefit from, or contribute to university programs, the AES office can help. Please submit a request through Accommodate.

Documentation of a disability must be provided to receive accommodations.

Each semester, all students with approved accommodation must submit a new semester request to renew their accommodation letter. To submit a semester request, please follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Accommodate Student Portal from a computer (System may not work correctly on phones)
2. Under Home, click on Accommodation. A drop-down menu will appear.
3. In that menu, click on Semester Request.
4. Click the Add New button.
5. Your previously approved accommodations will be displayed at the top of the page. Review them for accuracy.
6. In the Semester drop-down menu, select the current semester.
7. Click on the Submit for All Accommodations button.

Once the AES staff has reviewed and approved your semester request, you will be notified by email that your letter is ready in the Student Portal. Please print out the letter and hand it to them; if you have an online course, you can email it to them. You are responsible for making sure your letter has reached your professors. Accommodations are not retroactive and are only officially implemented once you have spoken with your professor.

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It is the instructor’s responsibility to ensure that the learning environment is accessible to students who identify themselves as having a disability and have provided you with an accommodation letter.

To create an atmosphere where students feel comfortable with coming forward to discuss any support they may need, instructors may wish to include the following statement in their syllabus:

If you have a disability and need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please contact the Accessible Educational Services Office at 574-520-4460 or visit their office in the admin building, Suite 175, as soon as possible. Once the AES Office has provided you with an accommodation letter, bring that letter to me. For more information, please visit the AES Website.

Many students have accommodations for hidden disabilities, often emotional in nature. Most students with mental health challenges have never requested or used accommodations before. The uncertainty and change brought on by their situation may bring on new mental health challenges for students. Please note the following:

• Even the best-designed online classrooms can be disorienting and lonely for students who are used to face-to-face interactions, which could aggravate pre-existing mental health challenges.
• Anxiety can impact all aspects of attention. Building in extended time for assignments/assessments and redundancy in messaging to students may be helpful.
• Only the student can decide to disclose a disability or to pursue information about services available from the Accessible Educational Services Office.
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The IU South Bend Office of Accessible Educational Services is happy to provide supportive programming specifically to students who identify as falling on the autism spectrum. This program is student focused, and addresses needs these students may encounter to be academically successful, as well as the issues of social transition that commonly impacts this population as they pursue higher education.

Students can meet with staff based on preference and availability of weekly, every other week, or monthly check-ins to discuss executive functioning skill building and academics. This support will also identify social opportunities that the campus has to offer based on interests of the student, and in addition social opportunities unique for this population of students currently registered with the office.

For more information on this support please feel free to contact the office through email at sbdss@iu.edu or phone at 574-520-4460.

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TFT is our on-campus food pantry, offering free, healthy food to students, faculty, and staff struggling with food insecurity. To learn more, please visit Titans Feeding Titans.

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The Emergency Relief Fund is available to students who demonstrate an emergency or unexpected hardship that hinders their ability to continue at IU. To learn more, please visit the Emergency Relief Application.

For other resources available both on and off campus, please visit our Student Counseling Center webpage.