If you are requesting Accommodation Letters for Summer Session classes, please be aware that due to a glitch in our email and software system, emails are NOT being sent out to let students know their Accommodations Letters are printed and available to pick up. During the 2013 summer session only,… read more
SSD Students
June is PTSD Awareness Month
What Is PTSD Awareness Month? The National Center for PTSD promotes awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and effective treatments throughout the year. Starting in 2010, Congress named June 27th PTSD Awareness Day (S. Res. 455). Since then, during the month of June, we ask everyone to help us raise… read more
May 30th: Interview for SSD Executive Director
SSD would like to invite you and solicit your input on feedback on an interview candidate for the leadership position for Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD). Although we realize many of you will not be on campus toward the end of this month, we would love anyone who is… read more
SSD Recognizes 35 Outstanding Faculty and Staff Members
Faculty and staff play an integral part in making sure that students receive their accommodations, and every semester there are faculty and staff that go above and beyond the call of duty to help students with disabilities. To recognize these outstanding members of the UT community, SSD students nominate faculty… read more
Student Awarded Ashworth Fellowship
MSSW student Carol Gilson has been awarded the Kenneth H. Ashworth Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year. This fellowship program was established in 1997 by members of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to honor Dr. Kenneth H. Ashworth for his services as commissioner. The purpose of the program is to provide… read more
SSD Students Featured in The Daily Texan
For blind students, books are simple- it’s the old buildings that present challenges When Jennifer Applegate purchases her books for the coming semester, she brings the texts to the Student Services Building, where they are stripped from their binding and fed into a scanner. Applegate doesn’t hate books — she… read more
Accepting Nominations for SSD’s Faculty/Staff Appreciation Awards
It’s time to nominate faculty and staff for SSD’s End of the Semester Faculty/Staff Appreciation Awards! Have you had a particularly great experience with a faculty or staff member this semester? If so, this is an excellent opportunity to give thanks. Your anonymous nominations will result in SSD generating letters of thanks along… read more