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The Disability Resource Center coordinates services for students with disabilities and acts as an advocate to assist in making campus life accessible. 

The Disability Resource Center (DRC) has a commitment to:

  • Determine accommodations or adjustments to courses, academic programs, services and activities for students with documented disabilities;

  • Collaborate with campus partners to identify and remove barriers and foster a campus that is physically, programmatically and attitudinally accessible to students with disabilities;

  • Provide information and advisement for employees on disability-related topics, including regulatory compliance; and

  • Engage and support the campus community in promoting an accessible and inclusive environment for all students with disabilities.
     

To be eligible for disability-related services, students must have a documented or visible impairment as defined by the Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1990 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. The ADA regulations broadly define impairments to include a wide variety of disorders or conditions affecting any number of body systems, including: the neurological or musculoskeletal systems, special sense organs, respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, digestive, genitor-urinary, hemic, lymphatic, or endocrine systems, or the skins. Impairments also include mental or psychological disorders, including: mental retardation, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and certain learning disorders. 

Rockhurst University is obligated to provide reasonable accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary services to qualified students with disabilities. It is the responsibility of the student with a disability to inform the DRC that an accommodation or change in accommodation is needed and to participate in the interactive process to formulate a reasonable accommodation plan. When a qualified student with a disability requests accommodations, reasonable efforts to provide the accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary service that is deemed effective will be made.

Disability Resource Center

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