Rights and Responsibilities of Students with Disabilities

Rights

• Access to all University courses, programs, services, and employment.
• Information in accessible formats.
• Reasonable accommodations that provide equal opportunity.
• Appropriate confidentially of disability related information.
• Auxiliary aids and assistive technology.
• Assistance from DS&R in removing physical, academic, and attitudinal barriers.
• Appropriate career counseling, (not toward more restrictive career objectives).
• Freedom from discrimination due to a disability or retaliatory discrimination.

Responsibilities

• To meet qualifications and maintain essential standards for courses, programs, services, and/or employment.
• To self-identify to DS&R.
• To provide documentation of a disability and how the disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, and/or employment.
• To initiate requests for accommodations in a timely manner.
• To follow published procedures for obtaining accommodations.
• To assume personal responsibility for meeting with faculty as needed to secure accommodations.
• To provide for personal independent living needs and other personal disability-related needs.