How the Accommodation Works
Obviously, smart pens are available for anyone who wants to purchase one; students and faculty of all descriptions and abilities use them.
What Disability Resources provides in this accommodation is the loan of a pen and notification to the instructor that the use of the pen in the course is a specific accommodation for a disability. Though Oregon's Electronic Recording Law (ORS 165.540 subsection 6) is generous, this notification ensures that instructors understand the purpose of the recording .
Some students who already own their own Livescribe pen will utilize just the notification aspect of the accommodation. Generally, students are either eligible for the traditional notetaking accommodation or the pen, not both.
Disability Resources can only loan pens to SOU students who are eligible for notetaking accommodations due to a specific disability. Eligible students request the use of the pen as they do any other accommodation, through the AIMS website.
