Student Guidelines
Purpose of Student Disability Services
- Provide services and accommodations to students with
disabilities
- Work closely with faculty and staff in an advisory
capacity
- Assist in the development of reasonable accommodations
for students
- Provide equal access for individuals with disabilities
Qualified Individual
- Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially
limits one or more major life activities
- Has accommodation paperwork issued by the Office of
Student Disability Services at UT after a complete review of appropriate
documentation by a qualified professional
- Is otherwise qualified to attend UT
Confidentiality
- Disability documentation and the nature of the
disability is confidential between the coordinator and the student unless the
student chooses to reveal it
- Any explicit or implicit inference to a particular
student and the disability is inappropriate
Eligibility Verification
- Determined on an individual basis
by the coordinator and an independent consultant using the Documentation
Requirements found at www.ut.edu/disabilities
- Documentation Requirements are
based upon the best practices and guidelines of the national organizations
AHEAD (www.ahead.org) and ETS (www.ets.org)
- Self-disclosure by student to the
Office of Student Disability Services
- Verification by another institution
does not guarantee eligibility for services at UT
- IEPs are NOT sufficient
documentation
- Documentation must be received in a
timely manner to allow for thorough review of documentation and establishment
of services
Access to Academic Services
- Reasonable accommodations will be made based on an
individual’s disability
- Requests that will fundamentally alter the integrity
or standards of a course or major will not be honored
- Accommodations are made to allow equal access to
opportunities given to all students; however, success is not guaranteed
Student Responsibilities
- Assume personal academic responsibility by meeting
with faculty and staff and requesting help when needed
- Identify themselves to the Office of Student
Disability Services
- Provide appropriate documentation and request
accommodations in a timely manner
- Meet with the Disabilities Coordinator each semester
to obtain letters of accommodation
- Inform the Office of Student Disability Services in a
timely manner should any problem with accommodations arise
Student Disability Services Responsibilities
- Work with the student, staff and faculty to provide
reasonable and appropriate accommodations to allow equal access for disabled
students
- Provide students with a central location to resolve
disability issues
- Provide assistance with academic skills, such as
organization, time management, and study skills
- Maintain strict student confidentiality
General Accommodations Provided
- Extended time on tests
- Distraction-reduced test environment
- Note taking
- Use of a computer for note taking,
written assignments, and tests
- Special seating
- Adaptive equipment/assistive technology
- Scribe
- Reader
- Tape-recorded lecture
- Enlarged print
- Interpreter
Contact Information
Jennifer Del Valle,
Associate Director
Academic Center for
Excellence
Office of Student
Disability Services
North Walker Hall,
Room 102
(813) 257-3266
jdelvalle@ut.edu
Website: www.ut.edu/disabilities/