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By federal law, students with disabilities must be given "substantially equivalent ease of access" to ×îÐÂÂ鶹ԭ´´â€™s programs and services (including courses and course material) as is had by any other student. At ×îÐÂÂ鶹ԭ´´, students currently use a wide variety of programs to access courses and course material such as screen readers, text to speech software, Braille, audio recordings, tactile diagrams, scribes, note-takers and closed captioning. Read and Write, a literacy software program, is installed on all public computers in the library and all students with a ×îÐÂÂ鶹ԭ´´ email address can download it free onto their personal computers. Additionally, all members of the ×îÐÂÂ鶹ԭ´´ community have access to a Document Converter, which can be found on the Access Services website.

The following strategies and information were prepared by . This material provides information to help faculty understand the most prevalent disabilities and offers important strategies that faculty can implement in classrooms to ensure access to a course.