Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1992, Webb School will make reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities.

That accommodation may extend to students whose learning patterns are divergent but who can benefit from and succeed in Webb School’s program through intelligence, hard work, and learning strategies. Parents are responsible for acquiring documentation that supports the student’s need for accommodation and for submitting it to the Learning Specialist to be kept in the student’s file.

Any number of professional resources for testing and diagnosis are available within the larger community. When the student’s record contains a professional diagnosis of mildly divergent learning patterns caused by neurological disabilities like perceptual problems and dyslexia or caused by attention deficit disorders with or without medication, the school will respond with appropriate support based on each individual’s needs.

The protocol is as follows:

• Contact the Head of the Middle School.

• A meeting will be held with parents, the Learning Specialist, and the Head of the Middle School or Middle School Dean of Students.

• The Middle School Learning Specialist will create a Webb School learning plan that outlines accommodations the school can support.

• Grade-level teachers will meet to understand the implementation of the plan.

• The plan is re-evaluated periodically throughout the school year.

If a student feels that the school’s accommodations are inadequate, the student and the student’s parents may appeal to the Head of the Middle School, who will convene a conference with the professional diagnostician for review of the student’s needs.