Why aren students automatically registered with Disability Resources?
In K-12 special education, the school is responsible for ensuring the student’s success in meeting his/her goals. This changes at the post-secondary level. Instead of ensuring a student’s success, post-secondary disability legislation focuses on making sure the student has access to education, and only indirectly mandates accommodations. College students are legally adults and are expected to take charge of their education and be responsible for their own success. It is the student’s responsibility to let us know they are here and need accommodations. Colleges have no liability to provide accommodations until the student self-identifies and requests them. Disability support offices do not provide accommodation without student involvement, nor do they require students to request accommodations. If a student doesn’t request an accommodation, or fails to follow through on the requested accommodations, the consequences belong to the student. Accommodations cannot be made retroactively, i.e
Related Questions
- Where can I obtain more information about the resources and services available to students registered with the office of Services to Students with Disabilities?
- When a waitlist is full on one section and a new section is added, are students from the waitlist automatically registered into the new section?
- Are all students with disabilities automatically registered with the DRC?
