The Student Support
Services Department, located in the Mathematics/Psychology
Building, Room 213, provides services for students with
disabilities who are registered at UMBC.
Students
with physical or learning disabilities who want accommodation
services are encouraged to register with the department as soon as
possible.
Students also may
qualify for additional tutoring, academic, and counseling
services. Those services are located in the AC IV Building,
B-wing, 345.
Both the ADA and Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 state that a university shall provide
academic accommodations. Auxiliary aids must be provided which are
necessary to ensure that students with disabilities are not
"denied the benefits of, excluded from participation in, or
otherwise subjected to discrimination in" the program. That is,
UMBC is required to make reasonable accommodations to the known
physical and cognitive limitations of otherwise qualified
students with disabilities, unless it can be demonstrated that
either of the following two exceptions pertains:
1) the University can demonstrate
that the accommodations are not necessary to ensure
nondiscriminatory participation by a disabled student; or
2) the University can demonstrate
that the academic requirement for which an adjustment is requested
is "essential to the program of instruction being pursued by the
student."
UMBC and Student Support
Services are committed to ensuring nondiscriminatory participation
for all students with
disabilities.
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