DRO True/False
TRUE or FALSE: The DRO is located in Holmes Hall.
TRUE
We are located on the third floor of Holmes Hall and our testing center is located on the first floor!
A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
What is Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
This free Main Campus resource is a transportation service for students with injuries or disabilities. You schedule your pickup time, choose from a list of pick-up/drop-off locations and they will shuttle you on a golf cart.
What is Wolfpack Pick-up?
This actress, who had leading roles in movies like Sister Act, The Color Purple, and Jumping Jack Flash, has Dyslexia.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
This international organization, dedicated to providing athletic training and competition for people with intellectual disabilities, held its first International games in Chicago in 1968.
What is Special Olympics?
TRUE or FALSE: Students with the same diagnosis receive the same accommodations.
False
Accommodations are determined on a case-by-case basis based on the functional limitations of a student's disability
A mental health disability that typically causes recurrent and persistent thought and feelings and repetitive and ritualized behaviors
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
Located within Campus Health, this resource provides free short-term therapy, psychoeducation workshops, referrals and more.
What is the Counseling Center?
This famous composer, who wrote some of the most famous music of all times, became completely Deaf in his mid-forties?
Who was Beethoven?
In 1829, this raised-point alphabet was created to support reading for Blind individuals.
What is Braille?
TRUE or FALSE: If a student had accommodations at another College/University, their DRO records will transfer to NC State and their accommodations will continue here.
FALSE
Each Higher Education institution has their own version of the DRO and thus, determines accommodations based on specifics related to their institution
A disorder that causes a disruption in the way that an individual's brain understands what they are hearing.
What is Auditory Processing Disorder?
Through NC State and campus partners, this program provides support for students in need of food, housing, financial and educational security.
This famous actor, who starred in Shutter Island and Romeo+Juliet, has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
While trying to develop a mechanical way to make "speech visible" (captioning) to help individuals with a hearing impairment, Alexander Graham Bell discovered this.
What is the telephone?
TRUE or FALSE: The highest served disability group within the DRO are students with Learning Disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia, etc.)
FALSE
The highest served disability group within the DRO are students with Mental Health disabilities. Mental health disabilities are the most steadily growing disability group across universities in the US.
A developmental disability that affects verbal and non-verbal communication and social interactions and that generally appears before age three
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Here, students can get free resume/cover letter/essay support, participate in free mock interviews and even get free professional clothing for interviews/job fairs.
What is the Career Development Center?
This famous artist suffered from spina bifida and polio, leaving her bed-bound throughout most of her life.
Who was Frida Kahlo?
In 1973, this Legislative Act was signed into law, making it illegal for federal agencies, public universities, and other public institutions receiving any federal funds to discriminate on the basis of disability.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
TRUE or FALSE: The largest population of students connected with the DRO are from the College of Sciences.
FALSE
The highest population of students connected with our office is from the College of Engineering.
A physical disability that causes impaired motor skills, muscle tone, and/or posture that typically appears before age three and is due to damage to a part of the brain
What is Cerebral Palsy?
What is a CARES Report?
This recently retired NFL athlete was born with Constriction Ring Syndrome, leading to the amputation of one of his hands as a child.
Who is Shaquem Griffin?
The year the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law.
What is 1990?