About DRES
Mission
The mission of Disability Resources and Educational Services is to ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are afforded an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the curricular, co-curricular and vocational opportunities available at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through the collaborative promotion, provision and/or pursuit of innovative accommodative and educational services, and interdisciplinary disability research.
Vision
Disability Resources and Educational Services seeks to create an environment wherein:
- The nature and degree of access to programs, services and facilities, and the level of self- determination afforded qualified persons with disabilities are indistinguishable from that which is available to their peers without disabilities;
- Persons with disabilities are afforded access as immediately and unobtrusively as possible at the point of institutional contact; and
- persons with disabilities are recognized for their abilities, rather than their disabilities, or stereotypical attributes ascribed to their respective physical or mental impairments.
Objectives
Disability Resources and Educational Services seeks to foster egalitarian access, self-determination, and cultural inclusion by:
- Coordinating the provision of academic modifications and adjustments, auxiliary aids and services and environmental adaptations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
- Providing advocacy support and technical assistance and outreach on disability-related issues to University departments and the community at-large.
- Participating in the design, performance and application of state-of-the-art disability and rehabilitation research.
