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Students with disabilities have the following rights and responsibilities:
- To an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from courses, programs, services, or activities offered through the college;
- To an equal opportunity to work and to learn, and to receive reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- To appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding the disability and to choose to whom information about their disability will be disclosed, except as disclosures are required/permitted by law;
- To information, reasonably available in accessible formats.
- To meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services or activities;
- To self-identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is requested and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary;
- To give institutions advance notice of needed accommodation(s);
- To meet with a Disability or Supplemental Services staff member for an intake appointment and discussion about the nature and impact of their disabilities;
- To demonstrate and/or document (from the appropriate licensed professional) how the disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, or activities. (Submission of documentation is not the same as the request for services; these are two different steps in the process of determination and provision of appropriate accommodations. Generally, an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), 504 Plan, or General Education Initiative from a secondary school do not provide thorough information for the documentation of disability and needed accommodations);
- To follow published procedures for obtaining information, services and reasonable accommodations.
Students with disabilities must follow all codes of conduct as stated in the Fort Lewis College Student Handbook.
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The institution and Disability Services staff have the following rights and responsibilities:
- To evaluate and/or identify functional limitations of the student’s disability on a case by case basis, utilizing the professional judgment of the Disability Services staff to determine appropriate academic adjustment and accommodations needed for courses, programs, services and college activities;
- To request and receive from student, current documentation that supports requests for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary services;
- To deny a request for reasonable accommodation, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary services if the the documentation demonstrates that they are not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
- To select among effective reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary services;
- To deny a request for an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary service or one that imposes as undue hardship or fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the college.
- To share relevant information regarding the student's disability with those who have a legitimate educational interest.
- To ensure that qualified students receive academic adjustments and accommodations for courses, programs activities, and services in the most integrated and appropriate settings;
- To provide information to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request;
- To evaluate students on both their abilities and disabilities;
- To maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted/required by law. Disability related records will be maintained separately from academic records, and your documentation will be kept on record for (8) years after your last date of activity with the office.
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