Demographics of the Students We Serve
About our office and the students we serve:
Our office currently consists of 4 DSS counselors and support staff working to coordinate various accommodations. We service students with a wide range of disabilities. Although number of identified students in a given year varies slightly, below is a typical distribution of students listed with our office:
Type of Disability |
# |
% |
Vision |
7 |
.99 |
Physical |
46 |
6.48 |
Hearing |
8 |
1.13 |
Learning Disability |
189 |
26.62 |
ADHD |
154 |
21.69 |
ADHD with Learning Disability |
46 |
6.48 |
Psychiatric (includes depression and anxiety disorders |
151 |
21.27 |
Brain Injury |
10 |
1.41 |
Other (i.e. health disability or Asperger’s Syndrome) |
65 |
9.15 |
Temporary Participants |
34 |
4.79 |
Total |
710 |
100 % |
Student Performance, Graduation and Retention
When we look at student grades, students with disabilities do as well, or better than, their non-disabled peers. Similar proportions of students with disabilities are on the Dean’s List (GPA 3.3 or above), and also similar proportions of students with disabilities are on Probation (GPA below 2.0). There are proportionally fewer dismissals of students with disabilities.
Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, students with disabilities appear to have a lower graduation rate than their non-disabled peers. This is a nation-wide statistic that is also the case at URI. We are committed to increasing the retention and graduation rates of our students.
Although there has been significant improvement through the work of our U.S. Department of Education Grant, “Changing the Culture”, we still are striving for greater retention and graduation rates of our students with disabilities.
