Disability Support Services
What is a Disability?
A disability under the law is any "physical or mental impairment that substantially impairs or restricts one or more major life activities such as: caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, breathing, learning and working." The disability may be permanent or temporary.
Examples of impairments are:
- Speech hearing, visual and orthopedic impairments
- Cerebral palsy, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy
- Multiple sclerosis, cancer, diabetes
- Emotional illness
- Specific learning disabilities, such as perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, and developmental aphasia
- Alcoholism and drug addiction (in treatment)
Common Disabilities and Accommodations
Office Location and Telephone |
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| Campus | Building | Telephone |
| Pensacola | Bldg 6/Rm 603 | 850.484.1637 (Voice/TDD/TTY) |