Mesabi Range Community and Technical College has a strong commitment to providing equal access for students with disabilities, and fully complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. It is our policy to provide accessible programs, services, activities and reasonable accommodations for all students with disabilities.

Each campus provides services to people with disabilities through which reasonable accommodations are coordinated. Program staff will work with each student individually to ensure they receive equal opportunity to pursue their education. It is the responsibility of the student to seek available assistance and to make their needs known.

If you have any questions regarding disability services or reasonable accommodations, contact the Disability Services Office on your campus.

Who is Eligible?

An individual with a disability is defined as any person who:

1. Any person who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more os such person's major life activities (walking, talking, breathing, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, see, hearing, learning, etc.)
2. Any person who has a record of such impairment which means that a person has a history of, or has been classified as having a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major live activities
3. Any person who is regarded as having such impairment which means:

   has a physical or mental impairment that may not substantially limit major life activities, but that is treated by others as constituting such a limitation;
   has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities only as a result of the attitudes of others toward such an impairment;
   has no impairment, but is treated by others as having an impairment

Categories of Disabilities

Blindness or visual impairment Cerebral palsy Arthritis Cancer Cardiac diseases Chronic illness ADHD/ADD AIDS Diabetes Mobility Multiple sclerosis

Muscular dystrophy Psychiatric and emotional disorders Deafness or hard of hearing Drug or alcohol addiction    (former users and those in recovery      programs and are not current users) Epilepsy or seizure disorders Orthopedic handicap Specific learning disability Spinal cord or traumatic brain injury Speech disorder

Services Offered

[Partial list. Services are individualized based on student need and instructor/student/ODS staff consultation]

Transition assistance from high school    and community to college Assistive devices Early syllabus availability Course selection and program advising Peer tutoring Priority registration Advocacy Counseling Academic assistance Referral Interpreters

Note taking (volunteer note taking in classes;    work study note takers) Alternative testing (extended test time;    alternative test area; individually read tests) Taped texts (through RFBD; through ODS office) Support services Student support for coping in college Orientation to buildings MRCTC campus map Faculty collaboration (concerning    accommodation of disabilities in the    classroom, lab, testing situations,    etc.; disability awareness information    for faculty and staff)

Disability Services Staff

Lindsay Lahti
1001 Chestnut Street West
Virginia, MN 55792
(218) 749-0319 | 1-800-657-3860 |
(218) 749-7783 (TTY)
l.lahti@mr.mnscu.edu