{"id":20312,"date":"2024-10-04T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/?page_id=20312"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:58:54","slug":"disability-documentation-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/campus-services\/accessibility-services\/disability-documentation-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Documentation Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please review our full copy of the<a href=\"https:\/\/georgetown.box.com\/s\/xq88ogketr3udmd89aujxsqyjuruiz62\"> Disability Documentation Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Documentation must be submitted for each disability. If a student has more than one diagnosis, documentation for each diagnosis is required. Documentation must be on letterhead, typed in English, dated and signed by a qualified professional. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The qualified professional must provide a rationale and supportive data to substantiate a diagnosis, an interpretation and discussion of diagnostic findings, a description of the specific functional limitations, and an explanation for how the disability impacts the student <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in the law school setting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The student should submit any documentation or information that may help OAS determine reasonable accommodations. This may include a letter verifying previous accommodations, an approval form for national standardized exams, and\/or an IEP or 504 Plan. A student may not always receive the exact same accommodations at Georgetown Law as they received in a previous setting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A student may not present documentation and request accommodations after a grade has been reported. After a grade has been reported, it may be re-examined as outlined in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/registrar\/student-handbook\/\">\u00a0Student Handbook of Academic Policies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please review our full copy of the Disability Documentation Guidelines Documentation must be submitted for each disability. If a student has more than one diagnosis, documentation for each diagnosis is required. Documentation must be on letterhead, typed in English, dated and signed by a qualified professional. The qualified professional must provide a rationale and supportive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11206,"featured_media":0,"parent":18213,"menu_order":262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20312","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20312"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35931,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20312\/revisions\/35931"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}