Welcome to Services for Students with Disabilities 

Disability Services’ Mandate:

"Equal access at TRU is achieved when barriers to learning are removed. This is accomplished through increased disability awareness and the facilitation of student independence, self advocacy and personal responsibility.

Disability Services is committed to facilitating and providing services and reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities in a manner that is consistent with TRU's educational mandate and academic principles.  These objectives will enable students with disabilities to participate on the sole basis of their academic skills and abilities.”

What we do:

Disability Services provides access services to all eligible TRU students:  students at the Kamloops and Williams Lake campuses and Open Learning students.  The department assists in facilitating equal access to educational opportunities at Thompson Rivers University by reducing the physical, attitudinal and systemic barriers for students. 

Disability Services facilitates and/or provides a variety of services and accommodations for eligible students with disabilities. These may include: exam accommodation, alternate format text material, sign language interpretation, access to adaptive technology, the facilitation of in-class note-taking, etc.

Students requiring accommodations or support are required to provide current professional health care or psycho-educational documentation that is no older than 5 years.  Students should contact Disability Services at least 3 months prior to the start of a semester to ensure that services can be put into place for the start of the semester.

Who is Eligible?

Persons who have verifiable disabilities such as:
• Chronic/systemic health impairments 
• Blind or Low Vision
• Mobility/functional impairment
• Neurological Disabilities
• Mental health disability
• Deaf, Deafened or Hard of Hearing
• Learning Disabilities
• ADHD