The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Student Accessibility Services Office of Student Life and the Dean of Students
Procedural Guidelines
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is proud to be an educational institution that welcomes and supports a diverse and inclusive student body. By eliminating barriers that students with disabilities experience, we hope to create a learning environment that encourages and challenges all students. Students with documented disabilities are able to receive accommodations, appropriate academic adjustments, or auxiliary aids that will enable them to participate in, and have the opportunity to benefit from, all educational programs and activities of the university.
The Procedural Guidelines includes information about the law, the purpose of accommodations, how to register for services, services provided, and procedures.
Procedural Guidelines
- Federal laws
- Eligibility
- Temporary Disabilities
- Dual Enrollment
- Documentation Guidelines
- Registering for Services
- Departmental Review Committee (DRC)
- Welcome Meeting
- Accommodation Letters
- Accommodations
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For additional information, please see the SAS Accommodations Glossary: https://www.utrgv.edu/accessibility/accommodations/glossary/index.htm
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- Services
- Disability Counseling and Liaison Activities
- Assistive Technology
- Volunteer Note-Taking
- Reader/Scribe Services
- Sign-Language Interpreting Services
- Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART)
- Alternate Format
- Accommodated Testing
- Reader/Scribe Services for Testing
- Policy on Academic or Scholastic Dishonesty
- School of Medicine (SOM) Testing
- Additional Support Services
- Study Abroad
- Service Animal/Emotional Support Animals
- Personal Care Attendants
- Grievance Procedure/Records
- Grievance
- Confidentiality
- Student Records
- Requesting Your Record