Students with Learning Disabilities

The Office of Disability Services (FIT-ABLE) at the Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY, provides services to students with disabilities, working with each individually. The Learning Disabilities Program at FIT provides additional services. Students with learning disabilities must establish eligibility for services and/or reasonable accommodations by providing disability documentation from a professional licensed or certified to diagnose and treat their disability.

Disability documentation for students with LD must be provided by one of the following:

• Licensed psychologist
• Licensed neuropsychologist

Such documentation should be the result of comprehensive adult-level testing completed no earlier than the student’s 10th or 11th grade of high school.

Documentation must include the following:

• Diagnosis and DSM code
• History
• Observations
• Comprehensive standardized adult IQ test, recommended, the WAIS –III, with results and interpretation of all sub-tests included
• Comprehensive test of achievement, recommended, the Woodcock-Johnson, with results and interpretation of all sub-tests included.
• Conclusions
• Summary
• Recommendation of accommodations

Additional evaluations are the professional call of the diagnostician, and will help insure the credibility of the FIT-ABLE eligibility criteria, as well as providing our staff with valuable insight into the student’s disability-related accommodation requests and abilities.