Students with disabilities rights and responsibilities

1. Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities across the University;
2. Reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids determined on a case-by-case basis;
3. Appropriate confidentiality of all information pertaining to her/his disability with the choice of whom to disclose the disability to, except as required by law;
4. Information reasonably available in accessible formats.

1. Meet the University's qualifications and essential technical, academic and institutional standards;
2. Identify themselves in a timely manner as an individual with a disability when seeking an accommodation or adjustment;
3. Provide documentation from an acceptable professional source that verifies the nature of the disability and the functional limitations resulting from the disability;
4. Follow specific procedures for obtaining reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids.

1. Maintain the University's academic standards;
2. Request from a student current documentation completed by an acceptable professional source to verify the need for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids;
3. Discuss the student's need for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids with the professional source of his/her documentation with the student's signed consent authorising such disclosure and discussion;
4. Select from equally effective and appropriate accommodations, adjustments and/or auxiliary aids in consultation with students with disabilities;
5. Deny a request for accommodation, adjustment and/or auxiliary aid if the documentation does not identify a specific disability and/or functional limitation; where the documentation fails to verify the need for the requested services, or the documentation is not provided in a timely manner;
6. Refuse to provide an accommodation, adjustment and/or auxiliary aid that is inappropriate or unreasonable, including any that:
   • Pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others,
   • Constitute a substantial change or alteration to an essential element of the course or program, or
   • Pose undue financial or administrative hardship on the University.

1. Ensure that University courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are offered in the most integrated and appropriate settings;
2. Provide to students with disabilities information regarding policies and procedures and assure its availability in accessible formats upon request;
3. Evaluate students on their abilities, not their disabilities;
4. Provide reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids for students with a disability upon a timely request by a student;
5. Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication concerning students with a disability except where the disclosure is required by law or authorised by the student.

More specifically, Bond University's Student Services personnel have the responsibility to:

1. Assist students with a disability to self-identify and meet University criteria for eligibility to receive reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids determined on a case-by-case basis;
2. Assure confidentiality of all information pertaining to a student's disability;
3. Inform students with a disability of University policies and procedures for filing a formal grievance internally and/or through external agencies (e.g. Australian Human Rights Commission or the Anti-Discrimination Commission in Queensland).