Registering for Access-Ability Services is voluntary and it is the student’s responsibility to initiate and maintain contact with our office.
Student Responsibility
Access-Ability Services
Auerbach Hall, Room 209
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
Phone: 860.768.4312
Fax: 860.768.4183
access@hartford.edu
The student is responsible for submitting documentation to Access-Ability Services, separate from their admissions application. Documentation can be emailed to access@hartford.edu, faxed, or mailed.
After you have submitted your documentation, we will email you at your University of Hartford email account to schedule your Intake Interview appointment. If your documentation is not considered current and sufficient, you may be granted accommodations on a provisional basis. Provisional accommodations will be granted for one semester, allowing students time to gather additional required documentation.
Intake Interview appointments usually last between 45 minutes and one hour and consist of completing paperwork, discussing the nature and limitations of the disability, and accommodations. During this appointment, an Access-Ability Services staff member will determine with you which accommodations you will be approved for.
After the Intake Interview appointment, Access-Ability Services will electronically send an Accommodation Letter, indicating the approved accommodations to each faculty as requested by the student. By law, the nature and extent of the disability are not identified in this letter.
To activate the accommodations, it is the student’s responsibility to speak with their professors to use or waive specific approved accommodations. It is the student’s right to use or waive approved accommodations on a case-by-case or semester-by-semester basis.
Please note that students must request accommodations each semester, as accommodations do not roll over. Accommodations and services may also change over time. Additional or different documentation may be required for an accommodation to be approved or revised.