Disability Services Rights & Responsibilities

LSU Disability Services has the right to:

Request documentation.
- Receive the appropriate documentation from the student prior to the accommodations being initiated.
Grant or deny accommodations.
- Expect students and faculty to work cooperatively with DS to facilitate academic accommodations.
- Deny unreasonable academic accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary services. Accommodations cannot impose undue hardship to, or fundamentally alter, a program or activity of the college.
- Deny academic accommodations/services if appropriate documentation has not been provided.

Properly handle documentation.
- Collect, evaluate, securely house disability documentation and determine eligibility for services in a timely manner.
Maintain confidentiality.
- Treat and protect all disability-related information as confidential medical information.
- Meet with the student privately in an accessible location to discuss disability-related needs.
Administer accommodations.
- Administer exams as directed on the testing form in a secure and monitored environment.
- Provide appropriate accommodations in collaboration with the instructor and student.
- Provide print materials in accessible format once the faculty member and student identifies them.
Communicate.
- Communicate procedures clearly to the student and faculty.
Advocate.
- Assist students with disabilities in understanding their strengths and functional limitations.
- Provide them with skills to become self-advocates.