The number of institutions where at least one out of 10 undergraduates reported having a disability has risen 61 percent over the past five years. In 2016-17, 267 institutions had 10 percent or more of their students report a disability to the campus’s office of disability services, or a similar office. In 2020-21, 431 colleges fit this description.
Students could report having one or more of the following conditions: a specific learning disability, a visual impairment, a hearing difficulty or deafness, a speech impairment, an orthopedic impairment, or another health impairment. The diversity and related offices provide these students with such services as note-takers and American Sign Language interpreters.
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