Alternate Media Requests
DSPS provides instructional materials in
alternate format, upon request, to current students with verified disabilities.
What is Alternate Media?
Alternate formats include:
- taped text
- large print
- Braille
- tactile diagrams
- closed captioned videos
- electronic text or E-Text
(such as Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, Kurzweil KES, or text files).
Alternate Media simply refers to changing the way information is presented. A
print document can be read aloud into a tape recorder. A video tape can have
closed captions added. A textbook can be scanned into a computer, proof read,
and formatted as a MS Word document. These three methods all change the format
of the information, but they do not change the information itself.
The Alternate Formats page provides more
information on some of the formats we can create here at Cuesta College.
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Procedure
- A DSPS Specialist or Counselor verifies the disability, determines the need,
and authorizes the appropriate type of alternate media on the SEC. This must be done each year.
- Alternate media services are requested at the DSPS Support Services Reception
Desk, by filling out a paper form, or via the online form. If you submit
your request electronically, you will be required to come into the office
and sign a printout of the request.
- Students must sign the Alternate Media Request form, agreeing not to copy or
reproduce any alternate media provided by DSPS, nor to allow anyone else to do so.
Student copyright violations, including the improper distribution of electronic text,
may result in suspension of DSPS
Services.
- Students are required to provide proof that their textbook has been purchased by or for them.
- Students may be required to provide their textbook for conversion to
an alternate format. The binding may be removed from the book to allow the
book to be scanned. If this is necessary, the book will be
rebound with a comb binding. This takes from 2 to 4 days.
- Students should submit requests as soon as they register
for classes. Requests made after the start of classes will be honored; however,
there may be a delay of 1 to 2 weeks.
- Students may be required to provide a course syllabus.
- Preference will be given to the requested format; however, the recommendation of DSPS professionals will be used in
determining the specific format for each request.
- The Alternate Media Facilitator (AMF)
will inform the student of the projected timeline and of the alternate media format
that to be created.
- Students may inform their instructors of their need to receive class handouts
in alternate formats at the same time their classmates receive the handouts in print
format, and ask the instructors to work with the Alternate Media Facilitator.
- Students should notify the DSPS Support Services Reception Desk if they drop
or withdraw from a course.
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Alternate Media Request Form
The Alternate Media Request Form is available from, and should be
returned to, the DSPS Support Services Reception Desk.
Download the Request for Alternate Media Form
Use the Online Request for Alternate Media Form. Please fill out the form,
print a copy for your records, and click the submit button. You will receive
an e-mail confirmation that the form has been received.
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Alternate Media for Faculty
The Alternate Media Facilitator works closely with
faculty members to insure that students with disabilities get course handouts,
quizzes, and tests in alternate formats at the same time as their classmates.
For more information, please check out the
Alternate Media Flyer.
If there is a student with a hearing disability in your course, the
videotapes used in class need have closed captions. Please contact the
Alternate
Media Facilitator (ext. 2825) or fill out the online Closed
Captioning Request Form.
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