Guide for Assessing Persons with Disabilities
(Under review)
July 2007
Assessment Oversight, Policy Development Directorate
Table of contents
- Overview
- Key definitions
- Legal framework
- Principles for assessment accommodations
- Roles and responsibilities
- Determining and implementing assessment accommodations
- Step 1 – Communicate essential information appropriately
- Step 2 – Confer with the applicant to obtain information on functional limitations
- Step 3 – When necessary, obtain information from a qualified professional
- Step 4 – Determine assessment accommodations, considering all information
- Step 5 – Inform the person with a disability of proposed assessment accommodations
- Step 6 – Prepare and conduct the assessment session
- Standards for professional documentation
- Concerns to request assessment accommodations or to provide information
- Issues applicable to specific disabilities
Appendices
PDF Formats
- Guide for Assessing Persons with Disabilities – How to determine and implement assessment accommodations – PDF Format (391 Kb)
- Appendix 1 – How to think inclusion by design – PDF Format (24 Kb)
- Appendix 2 – Questionnaires to gather information – PDF Format (37 Kb)
- Appendix 3 – Consent to release information form – PDF Format (8 Kb)
- Appendix 4 – Glossary of adaptive technology and services – PDF Format (76 Kb)
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