{"id":181,"date":"2025-09-04T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/disabilities-home\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:13:01","slug":"disabilities-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/disabilities\/disabilities-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabilities Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container-fluid page-wrapper site-font\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">Disabilities Services<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"page_text\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"welcome - student accessibility services\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/Disabilities\/images\/newTop-Image.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n<p>The UWI Cave Hill Student Disability Policy promotes \u201can inclusive campus that enables the productive participation of all students regardless of disability\u201d and calls for the provision of accommodations for students with disabilities. Therefore, students with disabilities may receive reasonable accommodations to enable them to participate in all aspects of campus life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/Disabilities\/Files\/Disability-Policy.pdf\">Click here<\/a> to download the Disability Policy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n<p>\u201cA reasonable accommodation is a modification to the delivery of instruction and method of assessment for a course, program, facility or service that seeks to eliminate or minimizes disability-related barriers. It aims to facilitate the student\u2019s learning experience and for the instructor to fairly evaluate the student&#8217;s progress without interference from the disability.\u201d Procedure for Implementing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n<p>All students are required to meet approved standards of competency in all aspects of their work, and students with disabilities are no exception. The provision of an accommodation does not mean compromising the content, quality or level of instruction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-nav\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/disabilities\/preliminary-steps\/\">Preliminary Steps&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbs up image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/Disabilities\/images\/bottom-image.jpg\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disabilities Services The UWI Cave Hill Student Disability Policy promotes \u201can inclusive campus that enables the productive participation of all students regardless of disability\u201d and calls for the provision of accommodations for students with disabilities. Therefore, students with disabilities may receive reasonable accommodations to enable them to participate in all aspects of campus life. Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Disabilities Home - Office of Student Services and Development - The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill","description":"Disabilities Services The UWI Cave Hill Student Disability Policy promotes \u201can inclusive campus that enables the productive participation of all students regard"},"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/ossd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}