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Accessibility

This Accessibility Hub provides information and resources for members of the University community, including students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

Welcome!

Maryland is a wonderful and diverse community. Diversity is one of our core values and our campus is strengthened and enriched by people with disabilities. Accessibility is an approach to communication and engagement that recognizes the intersectional identities, experiences, and needs of our entire campus community. It goes beyond legal accommodations for students, staff and faculty with disabilities. We work towards making this a community where we each can bring our whole self to campus, where we each have the opportunity to thrive.

We do this in three main ways:

1. by working towards building a strong community of people with disabilities on our campus
2. by interrupting structural, attitudinal and institutional barriers that hinder equal access to university-sponsored programs and activities
3. by being a community that values all persons with disabilities as integral members of our campus community

We welcome you to our campus and we are thrilled you are part of our community!

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Accessibility and Disability Service

• Accessibility and Disability Service
  • Adaptive Technology Lab
  • Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
    • Includes information on requesting service providers: sign language interpreters, transcribers, and cued speech transliterators
  • Honor society for students with disabilities
• Counseling Center
• Health Center 
• Mental Health Service
• Resident Life Mental Health Support

Other Campus Services and Resources

Academics

• Career Center
• Education Abroad programs
• Social Interaction Group Network for All (SIGNA)
• Students Understanding College Choices Encouraging and Executing Decisions for Success (SUCCEEDS)
• University Libraries: Information for People with Disabilities
• University of Maryland Autism Research Consortium (UMARC)
   

Arts

• The Clarice Performing Arts Center Accessibility

Athletics

• Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium Accessibility
  • Includes parking accessibility during basketball and football games
• Xfinity Center Accessibility

Campus Life

• Fraternity & Sorority Life Accessibility 
• Housing - Department of Resident Life accessible rooms
• Housing - Request accommodation for a student’s housing
• Observatory
• Recreation & Wellness 
• The Stamp Student Union Accessibility
• Transportation - Paratransit Services
• Paratransit Service for visitors -  3 days visitor’s pass available. See regulations under “paratransit vehicle passengers”.

Commissions, Offices and Special Programs

• Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy
• Office of Diversity and Inclusion
• President’s Commission on Disability Issues (PCDI)

Events

• Campus tours and daily visits
• Disability Summit
• Disability Awareness Month
• Maryland Day

Faculty

• Accessible course design consultation at 301.405.8702 or ltdesign@umd.edu
• Disability Accommodation for Faculty
• Teaching and Learning Transformation Center
• Web-Based Course Content Accessibility Checklist

Information Technology

• IT Accessibility Hub
• Maryland Department of Disabilities Assistive Technology Program
• UMD Adaptive Technology Lab

Parking and Maps

• Map - Campus Map (accessible pathways available under “directions”)
• Parking with state-issued disabled ID

Policies and Guidelines

• Disability & Accessibility Policy and Procedures
• Non-discrimination Policy and Equal Opportunity
• Non-discrimination Policy and Procedures
• The Strategic Plan for Diversity at the University of Maryland
• UMD IT Accessibility Checklist
• 3-Year IT Accessibility Plan
• UMD Web Accessibility Policy
• USM IT Accessibility Guidelines

Student Organizations

• Active Minds
• Autism Speaks
• Delta Alpha Pi 
• President’s Commission on Disability Issues Student Advisory Committee
• Student Council for Exceptional Children
• Terp Thon

 

The Accessibility Hub was created in collaboration between the President’s Commission on Disability Issues, Accessibility and Disability Service, and the Office of Diversity & Inclusion. If you or your organization want to be included in this list please contact us at pcdi@umd.edu.