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Not Registered with SDS
Snapshot of Services
The University offers many services to its students with disabilities. These can include:
- Pre-admission counseling and new student orientation
- Academic accommodations and counseling
- priority registration and scheduling
- alternative testing
- alternate format /taped texts
- auxiliary aids and services (including notetakers, laboratory assistants, readers and/or scribes , sign language/oral interpreters and captioning services )
- assistive listening devices
- assistive technology
- alternative formats for printed material e.g. e-text, RFB&D
- Residential accommodations and counseling
- Financial aid counseling
- Transportation and parking services
- Referral and liaison services to agencies such as the Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, Board of Education Services for the Blind, as well as Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic for taped texts
- Information and referral source to [all] various University and community programs and services
SDS Policy Statement
The University of San Francisco is committed to achieving equal educational opportunity and full participation for persons with disabilities. In compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, it is USF’s policy that no qualified individual shall, on the basis of disability, be excluded from participation in, or be denied the benefits of, any University sponsored program or activity.
Procedures for Obtaining Services
Eligibility for these services is determined individually based on documented need. Early planning is essential for many of the resources and accommodations provided so we ask that you contact us at the earliest possible date, and no later than two weeks before the start of a class, in order for us to assist with your needs.
Descriptions and Documentation Guidelines:
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