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Rights and Responsibilities of Students
with Disabilities
Students with disabilities at Lamar University have the right to:
- Equal access to courses, programs, services, and activities offered
through the University.
- An equal opportunity to learn, and to receive reasonable accommodations
and academic adjustments in an effort to diminish the effect of the
disability on academic functioning.
- Self-determine who will receive student released disability-related
materials and information within and outside the University.
- All other rights and privileges available to other students at Lamar
University.
Students with disabilities at Lamar University have the responsibility
to:
- Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards
for courses, programs, and activities.
- Self-identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation
is needed and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary
in a timely fashion.
- Demonstrate and/or provide documentation (from an appropriate professional)
on how the disability limits participation in courses, programs, services,
and activities.
- Follow university procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations,
academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
Rights and Responsibilities of Lamar
University
Lamar University has the right to:
- Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge,
requirements, and standards for courses, programs, services, and activities,
and to evaluate students on this basis.
- Request and receive, through SFSWD, current documentation that supports
requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary
aids and services.
- Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary
aids and services if the documentation demonstrates that the request
is not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate
documentation.
- Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or
auxiliary aids and services.
- Refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary
aid or service that imposes a fundamental alteration of a program or
activity of the University.
Lamar University has the responsibility to:
- Provide information to students with disabilities in accessible formats
upon request.
- Ensure that courses, programs, services, and activities, when viewed
in their entirety, are available in the most integrated and appropriate
settings.
- Evaluate students on their abilities and not their disabilities.
- Provide or arrange for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments,
and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in
courses, programs, services, and activities.
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication
except where permitted or required by law or when the student requests
that such information be shared.
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