Access Services
Register with Access Services for Students with Disabilities

You may begin this process at any time before or during your application process for admission to the college. Contact with the Access Services office has no bearing on application to the college or any limited-access program. Intake interviews for individuals who want to begin a degree or certificate program will be scheduled after a person has completed the CF application process.

If you intend to request testing accommodations for the computerized placement test (CPT), test of adult basic education (TABE), or other placement test, then you must complete STEPS 1, 2, 3 and 4 below in a timely manner.

If you have been registered with CF’s Access Services within the last two years, go to STEP 4.

Start with STEP 1 if

• you have never registered with Access Services OR
• if you have had only a semester of provisional accommodations OR
• if it has been two years or more since you were enrolled at CF and received disability-related assistance

______ STEP 1: Review the Documentation Guidelines.
______ STEP 2: Submit to Access Services

• disability documentation to Access Services meeting those guidelines AND
• a Voluntary Statement of Disability Form
• a Release of Information Form

Allow up to two weeks for Access Services to review the documentation.

______ STEP 3: Following the review of your documentation, you will receive a letter about the results of the review. You will receive one of the following letters:

• A letter stating your documentation does meet CF’s requirements and providing and a date for an intake interview OR
• A letter stating your documentation does not meet CF’s requirements and an explanation as to why it does not.

 ______ STEP 4: Attend the Intake Interview with the Access Services coordinator to discuss approved accommodations and the process of starting those accommodations.

______ STEP 5:  If specific accommodations are approved, provide your instructors with a Faculty Notification from Access Services at the beginning of the term.

______ STEP 6: Every term you want to have accommodations, complete an Accommodations Renewal Request Form. Submit this in a timely fashion to ensure accommodations.