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What is an Accommodation?
An accommodation is a modification or adjustment to instructional methods and/or a course, program, service, activity, or facility that enables a qualified student or employee with a disability to have an equal opportunity. An equal opportunity means an opportunity to attain the same level of performance or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges as are available to a similarly-situated student or employee without a disability.
For full details about the support and services available to you, please contact a unit listed below.
Disability Resources & Educational Services (DRES)
DRES ensures that qualified individuals with disabilities are afforded an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the programs, services, and activities at Illinois through the identification and enactment of reasonable modifications to institutional policies and procedures, the provision of effective auxiliary aids and services, the establishment of innovative educational services, and the pursuit of interdisciplinary disability research.
Accessibility and Accommodations Division of the Office for Access & Equity
All university employees (including student employees) and applicants for employment with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation by completing the Online Employee Accommodation Request Form. If an employee or applicant makes a reasonable accommodation request to an individual other than the Accessibility and Accommodations Division, such as a supervisor or human resource staff member, the university representative should communicate the request to the Accessibility and Accommodations Division within 24 hours.
ADA Coordinator’s Office
The ADA Coordinator’s Office helps ensure the university provides individuals with disabilities equal access to university programs, services, and activities. The office serves students, faculty, staff, and visitors who have questions about disability rights and resources, concerns about the implementation of their reasonable accommodations, or barriers affecting their access to the university’s physical spaces and digital content.
Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals
The university is committed to providing individuals equal access to its programs, housing, and public spaces in compliance with federal and state law. You can find information about service animals, service animals in training, and emotional support animals in the university’s Service, Emotional Support, and Other Animals policy and contact the ADA Coordinator’s Office with any questions.
If you live in University Housing and require an emotional support animal to live with you, you must be registered with DRES and notify University Housing. Review more information regarding accommodations at University Housing.
What are barriers to access?
Barriers to access may include things such as inaccessible websites, videos without captions, a blocked access ramp, facility issues, or other lack of access to an event or program.
Report any barriers to access with the form below or contact the ADA Coordinator at 217-333-0885 or adacoordinator@illinois.edu.
