Accommodation and Accessibility Policy

Western Community College fosters an atmosphere, which removes and prevents barriers that impact the accessibility of people with diverse learning needs.

The College is committed to preventing, identifying, and removing barriers that impede the ability of diverse individuals to access services. This includes students, staff, faculty, volunteers, and members of the College’s community. The purpose of this policy is to outline practices and procedures in place at the College to help identify and remove barriers that impede a person’s ability to access services. College staff and volunteers will ensure that they make all reasonable efforts to accommodate persons with diverse learning needs.

The College is committed to ensuring an accessible and open learning environment for people with diverse learning requirements by:

• Encouraging people with diverse learning needs to use their own personal assistive devices to access the College’s programs
• Enabling people with diverse learning needs to access and utilize our programs by offering assistive devices and measures
• Treating diversity with sensitivity and empathy while communicating with a differently abled person
• Permitting the use of service animal to areas of the premises that are open to the public
• Permitting a support person to accompany individuals that require them while in the College
• Training staff and volunteers about key principles and accessibility strategies
• Providing adequate notice of temporary disruptions when facilities or services that said people rely on to access the College’s programs are disrupted.