[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR18.444]

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            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
          CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (CONTINUED)
 
PART 18--NONDISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY-ASSISTED PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT 
OF VETERANS AFFAIRS--EFFECTUATION OF TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 
1964--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart D--Nondiscrimination in Federally-Assisted Programs of the 
 Department of Veterans Affairs--Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil 
                           Rights Act of 1964
 
Sec. 18.444  Academic adjustments.

    (a) Academic requirements. A recipient shall make necessary 
modifications to its academic requirements to ensure that these 
requirements do not discriminate or have the effect of discriminating, 
on the basis of handicap, against a qualified handicapped applicant or 
student. 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. 
Academic requirements that the recipient can demonstrate are essential 
to the program of instruction being pursued by the student or to any 
directly related licensing requirement will not be regarded as 
discriminatory within the meaning of this section.
    (b) Other rules. A recipient may not impose upon handicapped 
students other rules, such as the prohibition of tape recorders in 
classrooms or guide dogs 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 students' academic achievement in its program, 
a recipient shall provide methods for evaluating the achievement of 
students who have a handicap that impairs sensory, manual, or speaking 
skills that will best ensure that the results of the evaluation 
represent the students' achievement in the course, rather than reflect 
the students' 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 shall ensure that no qualified 
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.
    (2) Auxiliary aids may include taped texts, interpreters or other 
effective methods of making orally delivered materials available to 
students with 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.