
Documentation for Blindness or Low Vision must be submitted by a licensed diagnostician, such as an Ophthalmologist, Optometrist, or another relevantly trained medical doctor who has undergone comprehensive training in the assessment of blindness or low vision.
Your diagnostician must submit:
- A fully completed Documentation of Disability Form and a copy of your most recent eye report. This evaluation must be current unless the impairment is documented as stable and not capable of improvement. The evaluation should be a complete assessment of your impairment and your current level of functioning in an academic environment. It must include:
- A statement and history of diagnosis
- The procedures used to assess your impairment.
- Test instruments used with dates administered and results including visual acuity, corrected and uncorrected, both near and at a distance, and visual fields when indicated.
Your diagnostician must list the substantial functional limitations for each condition or disability and provide:
- A full description of the resulting current difficulties and functional limitations.
- The severity of each limitation and the impact of these limitations on learning and functioning in this academic environment.
Whenever possible, your diagnostician should include:
- Any recommendations regarding the academic accommodations and/or services needed for access.
- A clear and convincing rationale for each requested accommodation and/or service based on the degree of impact of the impairment and the resulting functional limitations.
- The history of accommodations provided in other academic settings.