FAQs for Students

If you anticipate barriers and would like to request an environmental or course adaptation, you may do so by contacting the Disability Resource Center. You can also fill out the online Request for Accommodations form. View the full accommodation policy.

Students who request accommodations through the Disability Resource Center will be asked to meet with a staff member and discuss their experience of disability, barriers, and effective and ineffective accommodation strategies. Students will be asked to provide documentation that describes their disability and its likely impact on educational experiences. If no disability documentation exists, students are encouraged to meet with a DRC staff member to discuss options for assessing potential academic barriers and how it relates to the student's disability.

Many students have IEPs/504 plans from high school. While these plans do not directly transfer to college, students are welcome to submit their IEPs/504 plans as part of their documentation. The DRC staff appreciates reviewing these documents to see what has worked for you in the past.

You may review our General Guidelines for Documentation.

Disability-related information may be released on a legitimate need-to-know basis within the university community only when there is a compelling reason for disclosure regarding some specific aspect of the confidential information, such as providing an appropriate accommodation. This determination is made by the Director of the Disability Resource Center.

If you have been issued a state accessible parking placard or plates, then you are able to park in accessible parking on campus. In order to use accessible parking on campus, simply obtain a typical Missouri State University parking placard from Parking Administration and use it in conjunction with your state issued accessible parking placard or plates, making sure both placards are visible. If you have further questions regarding parking, please contact Parking Administration.

Yes. You will want to follow the same procedures for requesting accommodations, providing documentation, and meeting with a DRC advisor. Accommodations will have an end date, due to it being temporary. If accommodations need to extend past the date decided, you will want to revisit with your DRC advisor to discuss extension of these accommodations. 

No. Accommodations begin only when you have provided your instructors an accommodation memo from the DRC and have had a conversation about how accommodations may work in your specific classes. Instructors must also have reasonable time to arrange for the accommodations requested.

Please contact us ASAP so that we can try to help resolve the issue. If you feel that you've been discriminated against, you are welcome to file a complaint with the Office for Institutional Equity and Compliance.

No. The DRC can only provide services of a non-personal nature; this may be different from your K-12 experiences. Services of a personal nature, such as a personal care attendant, orientation and mobility training, wheelchairs and hearing aids are not provided by the DRC. While these types of accommodations are welcome on campus, the DRC cannot provide them.