Center for Accessibility

Accessibility Resources

If you are interested in obtaining accommodations, contact the Director of the Center for Accessibility (334) 386-7185 at your earliest convenience.

Email: Contact us here
Toll-free Number: 1-800-879-9816
Office Number: 1-334-386-7185
Fax: 1-334-386-7124

About the Center

About the Center for Accessibility

In conjunction with Faulkner’s mission, the Center for Accessibility: Project Key acknowledges disability as an integral part of the campus experience. We are committed to providing equal access and opportunity to all campus programs and services for individuals with disabilities. In order to establish equal access, documentation of disability by qualified professionals is necessary. Accommodations must be reviewed each semester and are not retroactive.

Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Section 504 Subpart E
104.43 Treatment of students; general.

No qualified handicapped student shall, on the basis of handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any academic, research, occupational training, housing, health insurance, counseling, financial aid, physical education, athletics, recreation, transportation, other extracurricular, or other postsecondary education aid, benefits, or services to which this subpart applies.

Definition of equal access

“At the postsecondary level, the recipient is required to provide students with appropriate academic adjustments and auxiliary aids and services that are necessary to afford an individual with a disability an equal opportunity to participate in a school’s program. Recipients are not required to make adjustments or provide aids or services that would result in a fundamental alteration of a recipient’s program or impose an undue burden” (Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/504faq.html).

Definition of reasonable accommodations

Reasonable accommodations are:

Academic adjustments that assist the individual with a disability to have equal access to the educational program
Has a direct relationship between the barrier created by the student’s disability and educational requirements of the course
Does not alter a course’s
- Essential skill requirement
- Essential knowledge requirement OR
- An established objective

Registration

Fill out the online Intake form
Fill out the online Release / receipt form
Identify the documentation requirements for your form of disability and collect the necessary information.
Make an appointment for an interview with the Director.
For the interview, be sure you have submitted the online forms above and bring documentation pertaining to your disability diagnosis. If you are not attending the Montgomery campus please fax the information to the office.