Hudson Valley Community College's Disability Resource Center will provide accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Please complete the attached form certifying that you have read, understand and are able to meet these standards. Technical Standards For Admission, Promotion and Graduation Technical Standards are non-academic criteria used in the admission, promotion and graduation of students. Technical Standards are published discipline specific essentials critical for the safe and reasonable practice of Dental Hygiene. They also protect qualified persons with disabling conditions against discrimination.
Professional competency is the summation of many cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills.
The College has a moral and ethical responsibility to select, educate and certify competent and safe students and practitioners. Patient health and safety is the sole benchmark against which we measure all performance requirements, including the Technical Standards addressed in this document. Applicant Certificate of Understanding must be signed on last page and returned to the Office of Admissions. All candidates for the Dental Hygiene Associate in Applied Science Degree must possess essential skills and abilities necessary to complete the Dental Hygiene curriculum successfully either with or without reasonable accommodations for any disabilities the individual may have. Deliver, receive and interpret verbal and non-verbal communication to and from the patient, instructor, peer students and staff personnel.