Serving Students with Disabilities

East Texas A&M is committed to full equality of educational opportunity. Just as public schools are bound by the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA, 1975); the University must comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (1973) and Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
Section 504 and ADA are applied differently at the University level. At the University level, ADA requires proof the disability, its extent, and then appropriate accommodations. Students must initiate this process.

Student Disability Services

Instructors are obliged to comply with those accommodations. A student's 504 file and process can inform, but not govern, their dual credit courses. The University's established disability processes must be followed and often a more limited set of interventions results.

Student Disability Services serves as a resource for the individual student, and if need be, an advocate. As University students, participants in dual credit are entitled to access to University disability services. East Texas A&M's Office of Student Disability Services can be reached at (903) 886-5150 or www.tamuc.edu/SDS or [email protected]). Students with disabilities should be connected with this office to start the process of seeking accommodation(s) from the University as quickly as possible. Once accommodations are approved, it is the student's responsibility to request and provide a letter of accommodation to their instructor.