A qualified person with a disability is someone whose experience, education, and training enable the person to meet program requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation. An accommodation is any change in the learning environment or in the way things are customarily done that enables a person with a disability to have equal educational opportunity.
Some disabilities are readily apparent, such as mobility impairment or hand limitations.
Hidden disabilities that are not usually noticeable through casual observation include learning disabilities, chronic illness, hearing or visual impairments, and psychological disorders. Despite physical, learning, sensory, or behavioral differences, students with disabilities are, first and foremost, students. Each comes to college with a unique set of abilities and experiences. Although students with disabilities may learn in different ways or using different tools, these differences in no way imply that their capacity for college-level work is inferior or limited. Students with disabilities who have been admitted to the University have been admitted through the same admissions process as other students.