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Mission
Objective
Goals
Compliance
Disability Defined
Reasonable Accommodation Defined
Mission
Our mission is to offer equal access for students with disabilities to all of Lehman programs and activities in a climate that is welcoming and conducive to individual growth. Our philosophy promotes independence, self-awareness, self-determination, and self-advocacy.
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Objective
To provide reasonable accommodations and support services to students with disabilities.
To provide resources, advocacy, collaborative services, and outreach throughout the
Lehman College community.
To promote an open and hospitable environment throughout
the campus for students with disabilities.
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Goals
To provide the appropriate accommodations and support services for students with disabilities.
To provide referrals to outside agencies such as The Commission for the Blind and Handicap (CBVH), The CUNY Learning Disability
Center at City College, The Vocational Educational Services for Individuals with
Disabilities (VESID), The International Center for the Disabled (ICD) and The New York
State Readers Aid Program (NYSRAP).
To provide referrals to offices on campus; such as, Academic Advisement, the
Career Services Center, the Counseling Center, and the Health Center.
To educate staff, faculty, and students on disability awareness to ensure sensitivity to
students with disabilities.
To provide sensitivity workshops to increase success and achievement among students
with disabilities.
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Compliance
Lehman College is in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which states:
“No otherwise qualified individual with disability in the United States... shall solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from participating in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
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Disability Defined
"A physically disabled student is one who has a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such an impairment. Major life activities include such functions as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working (Section 504 Rehabilitation Act 1973).”
Learning Disability Defined
The definition provided in US federal code (Section 300.7(c)(10) of 34 CFR Parts 300 and 303):
(i) General. The term means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
(ii) Disorders not included. The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
The learning disabilities are:
- auditory figure-ground perception: inability to hear one sound among others
- auditory sequencing: inability to hear sounds in the correct order
- figure-ground: perception: inability to see an object from a background of other objects
- dyslexia: language disorder interfering with the spoken or written word
- dyscalculia: disorder affecting mathematical concepts or computation
- dysgraphia: writing disorder affecting production of the written word graphically or syntactically
- dysphasia: disorder affecting word retrieval or fluency in speaking or understanding
- visual-discrimination: inability to see the differences between objects
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Reasonable Accommodation Defined:
The American with Disabilities Act requires an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified individual with a documented disability provided that accommodation does not create an undue hardship. An undue hardship refers to any accommodation that would be unduly costly, expensive, substantially disruptive, or that would fundamentally alter the nature of the program.
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