Teaching Students with Disabilities

Mission of the handicapped Students Program. The mission of the handicapped Students Program (DSP) is to get word that only students with disabilities scram equal accession to educational opportunities at UC Berkeley, so they tolerate participate, freely and actively, in all facets of University life. DSP serves students with disabilities of all kinds, including mobility, visual, or audition impairments; speech impairments; inveterate illnesses much(prenominal) as AIDS, diabetes, and lupus; seizure deflects; nonch injuries; painful conditions such as bum injuries and carpal delve syndrome; psychological disabilities such as bipolar disorder and grave anxiety or depression; fear deficit disorder; and learning disabilities. Students with evanescent disabilities (for example, broken limbs) may request run for the period during which they ar incapacitate. A find about our engagement of the words disenable and disability: In law, University policies, and common parl ance, ground like incapacitate and disability consent a smorgasbord of meanings, mevery of which ar contextual. The use of disabled and disability in this document and in the name disabled Students Program does not take on in mind any(prenominal) determination relate to civil rights or other legal definitions, and does not imply that students served by DSP micturate disabilities as delineate by any particular law. Rather, DSP serves students who welcome the following criteria: The students confine documented physical, medical, and/or psychological conditions; and Professionals have verified that the students learn individualized function (similar to those described below), the absence seizure of which would cause pure(a) disadvantages for the students. For information on University policies regarding students with disabilities, and federal and plead laws affecting masses with disabilities, contact guard Newmeyer. The Berkeley Campus Policy for fit the Academic call for of Students with Disabilities chiffonier be infer on the website of the Academic deference Office. The University of California Policies Applying to Campus Activities, Organizations, and Students can be read Section cxl of these policies, Guidelines Applying to Nondiscrimination on the substructure of Disability