[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR605.44]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                 CHAPTER VI--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

 

PART 605_NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR

ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents

 

                    Subpart E_Postsecondary Education

 

Sec.  605.44  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,



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against a qualified handicapped applicant or student. Academic 

requirements that the recipient can demonstrate are essential to the 

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 students' academic achievement, 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 take such steps as are necessary to 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.

    (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 attendents, individually prescribed devices, 

readers for personal use or study, or other devices or services of a 

personal nature.



[47 FR 8573, Mar. 1, 1982, as amended at 68 FR 51381, Aug. 26, 2003]