Accessibility and Academic Accommodations
Empowering your learning journey
University of Niagara Falls Canada is committed to providing equitable access to education for all students. We strive to build a barrier-free environment and are here to help create a plan to meet your unique needs.
What is accessibility?
Accessibility is the practice of making education and spaces as barrier-free as possible for everyone. Under Ontario law, all students are entitled to full participation in their education.
What is a disability?
A disability is a medical, physical, or cognitive condition that prevents or reduces a person's ability to participate fully in society.
Disabilities can be:
- Visible: using a wheelchair, hearing aid, cane, prosthetics
- Invisible: ADHD, learning disability, diagnosed depression
- Permanent: a life-long condition
- Temporary: time-limited, like a broken leg or arm
What is an academic accommodation?
Academic accommodations are individualized arrangements that provide students with disabilities or medical emergencies a fair opportunity to engage in academic activities and fulfill essential course and program requirements. Examples of academic accommodations include:
- Extensions on assignments
- Quiet, distraction-free spaces for exams or study
- Permission to record lectures
- Preferential seating in classrooms
- Excused absences or extensions due to medical emergencies
How to access accessibility services
Our accessibility services are free and confidential. To request academic accommodations, you must first meet with the Student Success Office to review your claim. Our staff may ask you to bring supporting information or documentation to the meeting.
It’s important to connect with us as soon as possible.
Contact us at studentsuccess@unfc.ca
