Rights:
- Have equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities available through Midwestern University;
- Receive reasonable and appropriate accommodations on a case-by-case basis;
- Have appropriate confidentiality of all information pertaining to their disability with the reasonable choice of whom to disclose their disability to except as required by law; and
- Have information reasonably available in accessible formats.
Responsibilities:
- Meet Midwestern University’s and individual program’s qualifications and essential technical, academic, professional, and institutional standards required of any other student;
- Identify themselves with Student Services as an individual with a disability in advance of needing an accommodation;
- Provide documentation from an appropriate professional source that verifies the nature of the disability, functional limitations, and the need for specific accommodations. MWU policy requires appropriate diagnostic testing done within the last 36 months be provided in the documentation. Self-evaluation questionnaires, self-assessment surveys, and online diagnostic tests are not accepted as diagnostic of a disability;
- Follow specific procedures for obtaining the approval for a requested accommodation through Student Services and taking the self-initiative to ensure the student is implementing the approved accommodation by working with their program and Course Directors;
- Informing Student Services—not course instructors, Course Directors, or Deans—when the student desires to remove, add, or otherwise modify any approved accommodations, which may result in student needing to submit new documentation as needed for Midwestern University to assess the request; and
- Have the responsibility to advocate for their own individual needs and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary, and within reason, to be effective self-advocates.