DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES

Student Guide

Rights and Responsibilities

Students with disabilities have the right to :

• An equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from courses, programs, services and activities of the University
• Reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services
• Confidentiality of information pertaining to their disability

• Information available in accessible formats.

Students with disabilities have the responsibility to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential standards for courses, programs, services and activities

• Identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and to seek information, counsel and assistance as necessary
• Demonstrate and/or document (from an appropriate professional) how the disability limits their participation in courses, programs, services and activities
• Follow established procedures for obtaining information, services and reasonable accommodations.

The University has the right to:

• Identify and establish essential skills, knowledge and standards for courses, programs, services and activities and to evaluate students with disabilities on this basis
• Confirm disability status and request and receive current, relevant documentation that supports requests for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services
• Have staff interact with students to determine reasonable accommodations
• Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation does not demonstrate that the request is warranted, or if the student fails to provide appropriate documentation
• Select among equally effective reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services
• Refuse unreasonable accommodations, academic adjustments or auxiliary aids and services that impose a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the University.

The University has the responsibility to:

• Provide information to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request
• Ensure that courses, programs, services and activities when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings
• Evaluate students on the basis of their abilities and not their disabilities
• Respond to requests on a timely basis
• Provide or arrange reasonable accommodations
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication.