The Disability Support Services Office has been established to support the educational development of students with disabilities. The Assistant Director of The Learning Support Center, Daniel Capalbo, Jr., handles Disability Support Services and assists students in securing the necessary accommodations (based on appropriate documentation) from academic departments and other offices, if needed. Daniel Capalbo, Jr. can be reached at 516-299-3164 and is responsible for the following:

• Policy for students with special needs
• Documentation
• Evaluation of Documentation
• Notification
• Accommodations
• Publicity of the Policy and Procedures

Policy for Students with Disabilities

New York state guidelines indicate that recent federal and state laws require college and universities to provide qualified individuals with disabilities the opportunity to participate in all programs and services, curricular and extracurricular, which are available to non-disabled individuals, including test programs and examinations. In order to permit individuals with disabilities the opportunity to benefit from such participation, reasonable accommodations, including appropriate adjustments and modifications of examinations and activities, must be implemented.

Under the law, reasonable accommodations are offered at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University for individuals with disabilities.

Students with disabilities will receive basic academic accommodations by their individual professors and their academic departments. Accommodations will be made by other Campus departments as required for non-academic matters. Students with disabilities, who desire accommodations, must submit appropriate documentation of their disabilities to the DSS Office. Appropriate professional staff will review and evaluate this documentation, establish confidential files, and provide the student with appropriate Accommodations Forms that the student will present to the teaching faculty.  Prior to the beginning of each semester students with disabilities must meet with Daniel Capalbo, Jr. to obtain the appropriate Accommodations Forms to present to the professors. Other Campus departments will be notified, as necessary, of the needs for additional accommodations noted in the student's documentation.

Procedures for Students With Disabilities Who Desire Accommodations

1) Documentation:

A student with a disability who desires accommodations must submit appropriate documentation of their disability to the DSS Office. In most cases, appropriate documentation should be no older than 3 years, must include a diagnosis of a disability, must include the testing and results that explain the nature of the disability, the way it currently impacts the student academically or otherwise, and suggestions of accommodations that might work for the student.

2) Evaluation of Documentation:

Appropriate professional staff in the DSS Office will review and evaluate the disability documentation that a student submits. Confidential files will be established for documented students with disabilities.

3) Notification

The DSS Office will notify the campus departments of special accommodations needed. The Assistant Director will also meet with the student and provide the student with the appropriate Accommodations Forms for the student to present to their professors.

4) Accommodations

Each academic department will provide the academic accommodations needed by the student. These academic accommodations may include but are not limited to extended time for tests, note takers, use of a tape recorder in class, reading exam questions to a student, a scribe to record a student's answers to test questions, and the use of a computer for an essay exam. Other Campus departments will be responsible for making accommodations as necessary.

5) Publicity of the Policy and Procedures

The policy and procedures for students with disabilities will be publicized in the following ways:

• C.W. Post publications such as the Student Handbook, Handbook for Students with Disabilities and the graduate and undergraduate catalogues and bulletins will include the policy and procedures for students with disabilities.
• Letters explaining the policy and procedures will be sent to all incoming students in the admission acceptance packets.
• A campus mailing to all teaching faculty and staff will explain the policy and procedures.
• Special information meetings will be held with the offices that often interact with students with disabilities such as Admissions Counselors and Academic Counselors/Advisors.
• All faculty will be provided with a statement to read in class on the first day of classes that provides students with information on how to request accommodations