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Rights and Responsibilities
Students who come
directly to CCSU from high school programs where they were classified,
either under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or
Section 504, may have received program modifications, accommodations or
access to auxiliary aids or services that may not be appropriate in a
postsecondary setting (colleges and universities). The following
information will clarify the rights and responsibilities of students
with disabilities and the University.
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student with a disability at CCSU has the right to: |
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Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities,
and facilities available through the University; |
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Equal opportunity to work, learn, and to receive
reasonable and effective accommodations as determined for each
individual, including academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary
aids, services, and accommodations; |
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Appropriate confidentiality of all information
regarding their disability except as disclosures are required
or permitted by law; |
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Information available in alternate format. |
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student with a disability has the responsibility to:
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Meet qualifications and maintain essential
institutional standards for course programs, services, jobs and
activities; |
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Identify as an individual with a disability when
an accommodation auxiliary aid or service is needed and seek
information, counsel and assistance when necessary; |
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Follow published procedures for obtaining
reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary
aids and services. |
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Central
Connecticut State University has the right to: |
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Identify and
establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and
standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and use
of facilities and to evaluate students on this basis; |
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Request and
receive, through the Office of Student Disability Services, current
documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic
adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services; |
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Deny any
request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary
aids and services if, based on the assessment of the Office of
Student Disability Services, an individual fails to provide the
required documentation, the documentation does not demonstrate the
need for such accommodations and/or it imposes a fundamental
alteration to a program or activity; |
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Choose among
equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids
and services. |
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Central
Connecticut State University has the responsibility to: |
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Evaluate
current and prospective students without regard to their disability; |
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Provide or
arrange reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and
auxiliary aids and services; |
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Ensure that
courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities are
available and usable in the most integrated settings when viewed in
their entirety; |
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Maintain
appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except
disclosure is authorized by the student or required by law; |
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Provide, in a
timely fashion, information in alternate formats when requested. |
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