Welcome to Student Accessibility Services

Documentation and information related to your disability are kept confidential within our office.  

We only share limited information needed to ensure the effective provision of accommodations (e.g., that a student is eligible for a certain accommodation, or that there is a barrier to access for a specific task/environment).

Please read all the information on this site regarding identification, documentation, and accommodation procedures carefully.   

The process below is only for students who are requesting an accommodation.  If you do not need an accommodation, you do not need to connect with SAS, even if you identify as an individual with a disability.     

Student New to Student Accessibility Services

  1. Complete our online Academic Accommodations Request application form
  2. Provide documentation of a disability to SAS. 
  3. Meet with an SAS specialist for determination of eligibility and develop an accommodation plan.
    • Specialists are available by appointment. Make sure to specify whether you prefer to meet via Zoom or in person.
      • All in-person meetings are held at the SAS office, Peggy Ryan Williams Center G072.
    • Ways to schedule your appointment:
      • Use the APPOINTMENTS tab in the top ribbon of your Academic Accommodations Request application form.
      • Phone the SAS office at 607-274-1005 during business hours for help to schedule.
      • Stop by the SAS front desk in PRW G072 during business hours for help to schedule.

Housing and dietary accommodations have slightly different procedures. They use a different application form and have separate criteria for supporting documentation.

No student should delay registering with our office out of concern for not having appropriate paperwork or documentation.  

Accommodations may take time to put in place and are not retroactive. 

Returning students

A returning student, in this context, means: a student who has already established eligibility for SAS accommodations in a past semester.

  • For your first semester using SAS accommodations, part of your intake appointment will involve a discussion with the SAS specialist about the accommodation plans you want for that semester. For that semester, the SAS specialist will send out your accommodation plans to each instructor accordingly.
  • In subsequent semesters, those choices cannot carry over, because you'll be taking completely different courses with different instructors.

Every semester, for every course, you have the right and responsibility to choose which accommodations you want to use, out of those for which you’re eligible. You do this by making accommodation requests in the SAS portal, or by meeting with an SAS specialist.

The SAS portal will only send accommodation plans to the courses you request, and will only include the eligibilities you select for each specific course.

For more information, visit the Renewing Accommodations Page.