Reasonable accommodations remove or reduce barriers to the university environment, allowing students an equal opportunity to engage in learning. WSU Access Center offers a variety of accommodations to meet students situations, including Housing and Academic accommodations. To view information and fill out the application for accommodations you can visit the WSU Access Center.

WSU Disability Specialists can assist WSU students with documented disabilities in securing reasonable accommodations in the following areas:

• Classroom and educational environment
• WSU Housing (Pullman campus)
• Other student based responsibilities, activities, and programming

Reasonable accommodations can include modifications to classroom materials, facilities, or activities to allow persons with disabilities to have an equal opportunity to demonstrate their ability. Accommodations should not fundamentally alter a course’s essential components. Typically, students are responsible for notifying their Faculty of approved reasonable accommodations from their campus Access Center/Access Services by presenting the approved accommodation form for signatures. Faculty members are responsible for implementing many student accommodations.

Student Access Service Centers may be able to provide a student some information on resources available at the university and in the community to help meet access needs that are outside the realm of “reasonable accommodations”.  For example, Student Access Service Centers may be able to connect a student with accessible transportation sources to enable the student to better access community shopping and dining facilities.

Washington State University (WSU) strives to provide an environment where students are able to work successfully towards graduation, and employees can continue to meaningfully contribute to the workplace, including those students or employees who experience pregnancy, child birth, health conditions related to pregnancy, termination, recovery, and/or the need to care for a newly adopted child or foster child. WSU provides equal access to services, school programs, and extracurricular activities to pregnant and parenting students as they would to any other students. Students experiencing pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions may contact their campus’s Access Center/Access Services to request reasonable modifications to ensure their equal access. WSU Human Resources Services can assist employees with needs relating to their employment. Human Resources Services also provides information on the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which, in addition to medical leave, may be used for things like the birth of a child, placement of an adopted or foster child, and childcare for children under one year of age.

Washington State University recognizes  the importance of, and supports, the work that trained service animals can provide to those with disabilities. The University also supports providing accommodations for emotional support animals to those with a medically – documented need for such animals. Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) – Students and others who reside in University Housing (WSU Residence Halls and WSU apartments) may request an accommodation to allow an ESA. The WSU Access Center and Housing and Residence Life have developed a process to request this type of accommodation. Visit the Access Center and Housing ESA and Service Animal Procedures page for more information.