Accessibility Services

Major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working.

Physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to:

• any physiological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical loss affecting one or more of the following body systems: neurological; musculoskeletal; special sense organs; respiratory, including speech organs; cardiovascular; reproductive; digestive; genitourinary; hemic and lymphatic; skin; and endocrine; or
• any mental or psychological disorder, such as an intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities.

A qualified student with a disability is any student who: (1) has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such a person’s major life activities, (2) has a record of such impairment; or (3) is regarded as having such impairment.

Reasonable accommodation includes any modification or adjustment that can be made without lowering or substantially modifying essential requirements of a course or academic program; fundamentally altering the nature of a service, program, or activity; posing an undue financial or administrative burden on the College; or posing a direct threat to the health or safety of others.

Substantially limits means unable to perform a major life activity that the average person in the general population can perform, or significantly restricted as to the condition, manner or duration under which an individual can perform a major life activity as compared to the condition, manner, or duration under which the average person in the general population can perform that same major life activity.