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Rights and Responsibilities of Students

Registered with the Office for Student Disability Resources

Students with disabilities at Penn State University have the right to: 

  • Full and equal access to courses, programs, services, activities, and facilities offered by Penn State University.
  • An equal opportunity to learn and to receive reasonable academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services.
  • Appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding the disability, except disclosures required or permitted by law.
  • Information in an accessible format.

Students with disabilities at Penn State University have the responsibility to: 

  • Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, activities, and facilities.
  • Identify as an individual with a disability when an academic adjustment, auxiliary aid, and/ or service is needed and to seek information and assistance as necessary.
  • Demonstrate or document (from an appropriate professional) how the disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.
  • Follow published policies and procedures for obtaining reasonable academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services.
  • Meet with the assigned OSDR Coordinator each semester so that appropriate academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services can be made in a timely manner.

Rights and Responsibilities of Penn State University in Relation to Students with Disabilities

Penn State University has the right to:

  • Establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge and standards for courses, programs, services, and activities or facilities and to evaluate individuals with disabilities on this basis.
  • Determine the appropriate standards in developing, constructing, remodeling and maintaining facilities.
  • Request and receive, through OSDR, current documentation that confirms disability status and supports requests for academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services.
  • Deny a request for academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation.
  • Select among equally effective academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services.
  • Refuse an unreasonable academic adjustment, auxiliary aid, and/or service that imposes a fundamental alteration to a program or activity of the University.

Penn State University has the responsibility to: 

  • Provide information to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request.
  • Ensure that courses, programs, services, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
  • Provide or arrange reasonable academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services for students with disabilities in courses.
  • Respond to requests in a timely manner.
  • Maintain appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding the disability, except disclosures required or permitted by law.

Office for Student Disability Resources (OSDR)

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    • Disabilities Frequently Asked Questions
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  • Procedures for Exam Adjustments
  • Reasonable Academic Adjustments
  • Requesting Adjustments, Aids, and Services
  • Rights and Responsibilities of Students
  • Scholarship Information
  • Transition

Office for Student Disability Resources (OSDR)

Diana Kreydt

Student Disability Resources Coordinator
[email protected]

Office Hours

Monday - Friday
7:30am - 4:30pm
Additional flexible appointments upon request. 

Location

Swift Building, ​Room 244
1 College Place
DuBois, PA  15801

Phone

814-372-3037
FAX 814-375-4714

Disability Resources

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U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights
ETS Test Taking for Individuals with Disabilities
Pennsylvania Office of Vocational Rehabilitation 
College Resources for Students with Disabilities
Scholarships for Students with Disabilities
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Americans with Disabilities Act
The 411 on Disability Disclosure
Auxiliary Aids and Services for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities
Questions and Answers on Disability Discrimination under Section 504 and Title …
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