Affiliations: Baylor University, School of Education, Waco, TX, USA
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Lucy Barnard-Brak, Ph.D., Baylor University, School of Education, One Bear Place #97301, Waco, TX 76798, USA. E-mail: Lucy_Barnard-Brak@baylor.edu.
Abstract: The purpose of the current study was to examine those variables that we postulated as predicting whether a registered college student with a disability would request accommodations in higher education. To achieve this purpose, a variety of predictor variables were considered as predicting whether a student with a disability would decide to request accommodations and analyzed using logistic regression analyses. Results indicate two significant predictors of a college student with a disability requesting accommodations, which were a student’s university characteristics (e.g. being large public versus small private) and student attitudes toward requesting accommodations. Results indicate the importance of both personal and environmental factors as influencing a student's behavior of requesting accommodations.
Keywords: College students with disabilities, accommodations in higher education, student attitudes
