Faculty Handbook
Introduction to DSPS
Disabled Student Programs and Services (DSPS) at Cuesta College serves
more than 1000 students with disabilities each year.
Disabled Student Programs and Services provides students with disabilities
the specialized classes and support services
which allow the students to more fully participate in and benefit from
courses at the college. Classes include study skills, reading, writing,
arithmetic, computer skills, and more. Services include alternative
testing, sign language interpreters, textbooks recorded onto taped text,
braille, and much more.
Cuesta College is committed to assisting students with disabilities by providing physical
access, appropriate support services, adaptive equipment, and basic skills classes.
This handbook is designed to serve as a tool to help faculty understand how disabilities
affect learning in a college setting and suggests adjustments that can be made in the
environment or teaching style.
Cuesta College DSPS follows the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504
and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the California Education Code, and Title V of the
California Code of Regulations. Title V regulations provide guidance to the colleges
in their legal and fiscal responsibilities to DSPS and to students with disabilities.
DSPS assists the college in complying with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
of 1973, which states that "no qualified individual with disabilities shall, on the
basis of their disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits
of or be subject to discrimination under any post-secondary program or activity receiving
federal financial assistance".
Post-secondary institutions must ensure that students with disabilities
are not excluded from programs because of the absence of educational
auxiliary aids. Federal law states that “No otherwise qualified
handicapped individual in the United States... shall, solely, by reason of
his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits
of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity
receiving Federal financial assistance”. The Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1990 extends federal civil rights protection. It prohibits excluding
people from jobs, services, activities or benefits based on disability. The
laws are described in more detail in the Appendix.
After reviewing this web page, feel free to contact DSPS if you have additional questions
or concerns. The Disabled Student Programs and Services are located in the High
Tech Learning Center, 3300; the telephone number is 546-3148.
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