Disability Services helps students with campus resources and assists them in meeting the academic needs of the disabled student. In all cases where academic support services are needed, documentation of the disability, preferably in the form of a letter or report from a qualified professional - physician, psychologist or learning specialist, must be provided and included in the student's file. Frequently students believe that their disabilities must be severe in order to utilize services. It is important to remember that limitations are relative. Sometimes even a minor disability can have a significant impact on a student's academic performance.
True independence means appropriately accessing all available campus resources.
Whoever requires our assistance and is eligible can receive services. It states that disabled students must receive equal opportunity and equal treatment. It is not an affirmative action law which requires extra advantages or special treatment. 504 mandates that a qualified disabled student should have an educationally equivalent experience to that of a non-disabled student. A university provides equal opportunity to disabled persons in each of its programs, activities, and services when, viewed as a whole, it is accessible.