Student Wellness

The SWU offers reasonable academic accommodation for any qualified student with a disability with the aim of providing equal access to programs and facilities.

The SWU defines “disability” as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity, such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, learning, reading, thinking, concentrating, communicating, and working, or other activities as required.

All information about a student’s disability is kept confidential according to the university’s policy. However, the University needs sufficient information to reasonably evaluate and respond to a student’s request for accommodation and may share the information with staff and faculty members who will be accommodating the student’s case.

Students with disabilities are required to submit the Academic Accommodations Form along with adequate documentation proving the disability and/or a psychoeducational report to the SWU either:

1. Via email (studentwellness@uofcanada.edu.eg) or,
2. Via online booking system or,
3. In-person at Room A102 and cubicle B, building A, ground floor.

Once a student request for accommodation is submitted, the SWU works with each student to determine a reasonable accommodation plan that would fit his/her needs, will communicate the approved required accommodations to faculty members every semester.

To allow for adequate accommodations, it is the student's responsibility to request accommodations as early as possible in the semester, preferably prior to the academic term.

The available disability academic accommodations for an approved case include but are not limited to the following: 

• An adaptation to a component of a program, or alternative forms of evaluation (assigning a term paper instead of an oral presentation to a student with a speech impairment or autism)
• Support for examinations including extra time
• Distraction-reduced environment
• Adjustments to lighting.
• Special seating or accessible tables
• Use of audio and/or visual recording of lectures
• Use of oral interpreters, and/or note-takers in the classroom
• Use of assistive technology in the classroom/laboratory/field
• Visual enhancements, such as magnified materials and textbooks 
• Verbal descriptions of visual aids and tactile models of graphic materials   

All campus is accessible by wheelchair, there are working elevators, ramps, and parking spaces for those who need them.

Appointment requests are taken either:

1. Via email (studentwellness@uofcanada.edu.eg) or,
2. Via online booking system or,
3. In-person at Room A102 and cubicle B, building A, ground floor.

Students must fill in the Academic accommodations form prior to requesting an appointment.