{"id":2053,"date":"2025-09-09T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/?page_id=2053"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:57:51","slug":"ae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/ae\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessible Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greetings from the Office of Accessible Education<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are committed to ensuring full access to both academic and co-curricular programming college wide for students with disabilities.&nbsp; We also serve as a resource to faculty and staff and work collaboratively with campus partners to remove barriers to access and implement solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please do not hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/staff-clone\/\">contact us<\/a> with any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-shortcodes-btn btn-wrap btn-start-open\"><div class=\"btn-action\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"1d7819e4-0aac-4f3f-85b7-7ff285a0cf35\" aria-pressed=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"true\"><h3 class=\"btn-title\">Announcements<\/h3><div class=\"btn-arrow\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"btn-content\" id=\"1d7819e4-0aac-4f3f-85b7-7ff285a0cf35\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Welcome incoming and newly-disclosing students! A reminder that the <strong>suggested deadline<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/requesting-services\/how-to-register-for-accommodations\/\">requesting an academic accommodation<\/a> for the Fall semester is <strong>August 1<\/strong>. Initiate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/requesting-services\/how-to-register-for-accommodations\/\">request process<\/a> as early as possible\u00a0so there is plenty of time to process your request before the semester starts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Approved for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/assistive-technology\/text-in-alternate-format\/\">text in alternate format<\/a>? Send us your book list and proofs of purchase over the summer so you have the format you need before classes begin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Need to schedule an exam? Just&nbsp;login to your AIM account. Directions and video tutorials can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/aim-portal-for-accessible-education-services\/\">AIM portal page<\/a>.&nbsp;Please remember that we require two business days advance notice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-shortcodes-btn btn-wrap btn-start-open\"><div class=\"btn-action\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"4fc812d9-ee94-45de-83ca-88ba7e364645\" aria-pressed=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"true\"><h3 class=\"btn-title\">Frequently Requested Links<\/h3><div class=\"btn-arrow\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"btn-content\" id=\"4fc812d9-ee94-45de-83ca-88ba7e364645\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/requesting-services\/how-to-register-for-accommodations\/\">How to Request&nbsp;Accommodations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/requesting-services\/documentation-guidelines\/\">Documentation Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/resources\/accommodations-and-student-responsibilities\/\">Accommodations and Student Responsibilities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/temporary-conditions-and-injuries\/\">Temporary Conditions and Injuries<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/residence-life-and-housing\/residence-life-and-housing-accommodations\/\">Residence Life and Housing Accommodations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/students\/resources-for-new-students\/\">Resources for New Students&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Accessible Education and Student Support<\/strong><br>48 Campus Avenue<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/map\/#ladd-library\">Ladd Library G35<\/a><br>Lewiston, Maine 04240<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are open Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 4:30pm.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education\/about-us\/directions-to-our-office\/\">Directions to our office<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"tel:2077866222\">207-786-6222<\/a><br><a href=\"tel:2077868290\">Fax: 207-786-8290<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:accessibility@bates.edu\">accessibility@bates.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from the Office of Accessible Education We are committed to ensuring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"sidebar-4","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2053","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}