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Welcome to the Office of Disability Services
General Information
About Us | Classroom Relocation Policy | Faculty/Staff | Forms | Definitions | Resources | Testing & Technology Center
Information for Students
Rights & Responsibilities | Policies, Procedures & Resources Manual | Confidentiality | Concerns & Reporting Procedures | Forms
ADD/ADHD | Hearing Impairments | Invisible Disabilities | Learning Disabilities
Physical Impairments | Psychological Disabilities | Visual Impairments
Prospective Student Registration
- Every student has the right to compassionate services, free of judgment.
- Every student has the right to the best and most up-to-date information and services we can provide.
- Every student has the right to complete confidentiality regarding his/her disability and related information.
- Every student has the right to be seen in a timely manner.
- Every student has the right to be reasonably accommodated.
- Every student has the right to fully disclose information and feelings regarding his/her condition.
- Every student has the right to provide feedback to ODS regarding its operations.
- Every student has the responsibility to disclose any disability-related information to the appropriate ODS official if it may have a bearing on his/her academic progress.
- Every student has the responsibility to follow recommendations and established procedures for academic support.
- Every student has the responsibility to make appointments with ODS staff as the need arises, and to inform ODS if there is a need to cancel.
- Every student has the responsibility to provide feedback to ODS regarding its operations.
Rights and Responsibilities of the University of New Orleans.
- UNO has the right to request and receive through ODS, current documentation that support requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- UNO has the right to deny requests 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.
- UNO has the right to select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- UNO has the right to refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary service that impose a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the University.
- UNO has the responsibility to provide information to faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in accessible formats upon request.
- UNO has the responsibility to ensure that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are avail- able and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
- UNO has the responsibility to evaluate faculty, staff, students, and applicants on their abilities and not their disabilities.
- UNO has the responsibility to provide or arrange reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.
- UNO has the responsibility to maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted or required by law.
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UNO Office of Disability Services
Milneburg Hall |
Room 159 |
2000 Lakeshore Drive |
University of New Orleans |
New Orleans, LA 70148
Phone: (504) 280-6222 | FAX: (504) 280-3998
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