Confidentiality
It is your choice as well as your responsibility to disclose your disability to your professors if you want to receive disability related accommodations in a particular class. To assist you in this process, Disability Services will write a letter for you to submit to your professors regarding your disability and accommodation needs. And although you need to disclose your disability if you are to receive accommodations, the precise details of your disability may remain confidential from your professor if you prefer. Disability Services will not discuss or disclose information about you to the professor unless you have given us written permission to do so or have provided your professor with the letter from our office. When talking with professors, we do not discuss your disability; rather, we discuss the implementation of specific accommodations.
Disability Services keeps your records and the status of your disability in the strictest confidence. Release of any information regarding your disability or the services you receive will occur only through your written permission or in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA).
