UMBC encourages students (graduate and undergraduate) with any health condition that may qualify as a disability to partner with Student Disability Services to explore the accommodation process. Incoming and returning students may register for accommodations online 24/7 (link).  The SDS registration form is linked here.

Those returning to campus can look at campus accessibility updates on UMBC's most recent 2021 Accessible Route Map.  Facilities Management has been busy while faculty, staff and students were remote - beyond upgrades such as installing hospital-grade air filtration systems.  Additional assisted doors have been installed in several academic buildings, accessible door handles have been added, and five (5) elevators are being replaced: two in Fine Arts, two in Sondheim, and one in Biology's Schwartz Hall, so the campus is welcoming new upgrades as well.

The post is accompanied by a photo of a musician with brown forearms holding mallets that are poised to play a marimba.

P.S. Campus maps get updated from time-to-time, and the most recent accessible route map is posted to the Campus Maps page within Visit UMBC, to better inform people, especially those who are coming to campus for the first time.

For others who might want to help - the person with a disability takes the lead with asking for accommodation as a matter of respect and dignity. They are students and employees here because they have the qualifications for the role.  Accommodations are handled confidentially, so it is entirely possible that a classmate, workmate or a bystander might be the nth person to offer unsolicited advice for something that is well-covered.  How new is the person to their health condition? How new are they to UMBC? Is this related to your role with the person with a disability?  How new is a potential ally to working with someone with a disability?  This linked video helps those who are very new to engaging with people with disabilities. Do what you would do with anyone on campus: be present, listen, and reflect before acting, and ask the person involved. If it's a technical question, the disability professionals on campus are only a phone call away: 410-455-2459 or 410-455-5745.