Our Services
Academic Support Services
The Center for Students with DisABILITIES (CSD) provides numerous academic support services to individuals with any type of learning disability, health impairment, physical limitation, or psychiatric disorder. Examples of potential services and accommodations you may receive through the CSD include:
- Textbooks and class handouts on tape;
- Access to computers with screen enlargers, spelling and grammar check programs; instructional/basic skill programs, voice synthesis and voice recognition software, and more;
- Priority registration;
- Individualized exam administration (for example, extended testing time, oral, typed, and/or tape-recorded exams, and so forth);
- Free carbonized paper provided so that a classmate can be asked to take lecture notes for students (or free copies of a classmates notes, if preferred);
- Peer support groups and/or study groups (when enough students are interested);
- Access to resource materials, talking calculators, and such;
- Resource referral and/or coordination;
- Advocacy for students' rights to "reasonable and necessary accommodations" in their course work (plus direct liaison with
faculty and administrators as appropriate); - Assistance with petitions for course substitutions (in extreme situations only).
Medical Referrals
Contact our office if you need referrals to medical professionals in order to obtain an assessment or diagnosis. Some of the on-campus resources available to University of Houston students for these services include:
- Counseling and Psychological Services
(713) 743-5454 - Health Center
(713) 743-5151 - Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic
(713) 743-0915 or (713) 743-2898 - University Eye Institute
(713) 743-2020
Confidentiality
CSD services and student CSD records are confidential. We will not share information contained in a CSD record with anyone without the student’s specific written permission to do so. Students’ CSD records are not a part of their permanent student record.
State law requires that users of this site be informed that this site collects the following information about the users: the number of times someone visits this web site. If you respond to the "comments" form included on this site, your response, comment, or question will be forwarded to a staff member in Student Affairs who will respond directly to you. Otherwise, no data is archived or kept for any other purpose.
