Who is Eligible for Services?

Tarleton State University provides services to all qualified students with disabilities as defined by law. A person with a disability means:

“…an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodations to rules, policies, or practices, the removal of architectural, communication, or transportation barriers, or the provision of auxiliary aids and services, meets the essential requirements for the receipt of services or the participation in programs or activities…”

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §12131 [Sec. 201.]

The definition of a disability includes a person who:

has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such a person’s major life activities; has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such impairment.

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §12131 [Sec. 201.]

A “qualified” person with a disability is defined as one…

“who meets the academic and technical standards requisite to admission or participation in the education program or activity.”

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 protects the rights of qualified individuals who have disabilities such as, but not limited to: