[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR8b.22]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
PART 8b--PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE HANDICAPPED IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS OPERATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart D--Post Secondary Education
 
Sec. 8b.22  Academic adjustments.

    (a) Academic requirements. A recipient to which this subpart applies 
shall make such modifications to its academic requirements as are 
necessary to ensure that such requirements do not discriminate or have 
the effect of discriminating, on the basis of handicap, against a 
qualified handicapped applicant or student. Academic requirements that 
the recipient can demonstrate are essential to the program of 
instruction being pursued by such student or to any directly related 
licensing requirement will not be regarded as discriminatory within the 
meaning of this section. Modifications may include changes in the length 
of time permitted for the completion of degree requirements, 
substitution of specific courses required for the completion of degree 
requirements, and adaptation of the manner in which specific courses are 
conducted.
    (b) Other rules. A recipient to which this subpart applies may not 
impose upon handicapped students other rules, such as the prohibition of 
tape recorders in classrooms or of dog guides in campus buildings, that 
have the effect of limiting the participation of handicapped students in 
the recipient's education program or activity.
    (c) Course examinations. In its course examinations or other 
procedures for evaluating student's academic achievement in its program, 
a recipient to which this subpart applies shall provide such methods for 
evaluating the achievement of students who have a handicap that impairs 
sensory, manual, or speaking skills as will best ensure that the results 
of the evaluation represents the student's achievement in the course, 
rather than reflecting the student's impaired sensory, manual, or 
speaking skills (except where such skills are the factors that the test 
purports to measure).
    (d) Auxiliary aids. (1) A recipient to which this subpart applies 
shall ensure that no handicapped student is denied the benefits of, 
excluded from participation in, or otherwise subjected to discrimination 
under the education program or activity operated by the recipient 
because of the absence of educational auxiliary aids for students with 
impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills. A recipient shall operate 
each program or activity to which this subpart applies so that, when 
viewed in its entirety, auxiliary aids are readily available.
    (2) Auxiliary aids may include taped text, interpreters or other 
effective methods of making orally delivered materials available to 
students with

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hearing impairments, readers in libraries for students with visual 
impairments, classroom equipment adapted for use by students with manual 
impairments, and other similar services and actions. Recipients need not 
provide attendants, individually prescribed devices, readers for 
personal use or study, or other devices or services of a personal 
nature.