Rights and Responsibilities of Students with Disabilities

Rights and Responsibilities of UNH

Accessing UNH's Student Rights, Rules and Responsibilities in Alternative Formats

Rights and Responsibilities of Students with Disabilities

Students with disabilities at UNH have the right to:

• Equal access to courses, programs, services, and activities offered through the University
• An equal opportunity to learn, and to receive reasonable accommodations and academic adjustments in an effort to diminish the effect of the disability on academic functioning
• Self-determine who will receive student released disability-related materials and information within and outside the University
• All other rights and privileges available to other students at UNH

Students with disabilities at UNH have the responsibility to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, and activities
• Self-identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed, and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary in a timely fashion
• Provide documentation (from a qualified professional) on how the disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, and activities
• Follow university procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services

Rights and Responsibilities of UNH

UNH has the right to:

• Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, requirements, and standards for courses, programs, services, and activities, and to evaluate students on this basis
• Request and receive, through Disability Services for Students, current documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services
• Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation
• Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services
• Refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid or service that imposes a fundamental alteration of a program or activity of the University

UNH has the responsibility to:

• Provide information to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request
• Ensure that courses, programs, services, and activities, when viewed in their entirety, are available in the most integrated and appropriate settings
• Evaluate students on their abilities and not their disabilities
• Provide or arrange for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in courses, programs, services, and activities
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law or when the student requests that such information be shared

Accessing UNH's Student Rights, Rules and Responsibilities in Alternative Formats

A copy of the University of New Hampshire's Student Rights, Rules and Responsibilities is available to students on the website of the Judicial and Mediation Programs Office.

It may be accessed in an alternative format as e-text by downloading and utilizing the following free e-text reader available on Natural Voice Reader's website.

To download the free e-text reader from this website, do the following:

1. Click on "Free Software Download."
2. Next to "Main Site," click on "Download."
3. Click on "Open" on the file download screen.
4. When the "InstallShield Wizard" window is displayed, click on "Next" for the first window and click on "Next" for the "Destination Folder" window and in the following window, click on "Install."
5. When the "InstallShield Wizard Completed" window pops up, the setup process is complete. Click on "Finish."
6. Go to your desktop and click on the Natural Voice Reader Standard icon.

To use the free e-text reader to open and read UNH's Student Rights, Rules and Responsibilities from the Judicial and Mediation Programs Office website, do the following:

1. After you open the Natural Voice Reader software, a "Warning" window will pop up. This warning can be ignored; it is just informing the user that the free version that is being used does not contain its "Natural Voices." Close this window.
2. Click on "Window" from the toolbar on the top of the screen and select "Web Browser" from the drop-down menu if it hasn't already been selected. This will switch the e-text reader to "Web Browser" mode.
3. In the web address bar that appears at the top of the screen in "Web Browser" mode, type the following URL:
   
   http://www.unh.edu/student-life/judprograms/SRRR.htm
   
   Then, click "Go" on the right-hand of the address bar. This will open the webpage within the e-text reader.
4. Click the "Read" button on the left-hand toolbar to begin reading the webpage. Use the other buttons on the left-hand toolbar to stop reading, change the speaker voice, adjust the reading speed, etc.

* In addition, registered Disability Service’s students may obtain a copy of UNH's Student Rights, Rules and Responsibilities on CD in alternative format as either e-text or MP3 audio format from our office.

* Free e-text reader directions adapted from Southern New Hampshire University.

Disability Services for Students 118 Memorial Union Building Durham, NH 03824 Voice/TTY: 603-862-2607 Fax: 603-862-4043