Formerly Disability Support Services, ACCESS is dedicated to providing reasonable curricular and co-curricular accommodations to diverse learners with major life impairments at SIUE. Each year, ACCESS assists hundreds of students with a variety of diagnoses as the y pursue their academic discipline. ACCESS also provides resources which students can use to increase skills in learning, time management , and test-taking. Both accommodations and resources are offered to students who have provided appropriate documentation and are approved through the application process.

SIUE values the intersection of identities throughout the campus community and embraces the unique characteristics of diverse learners. Through community partnerships, academic accommodations and resources extended to students in need of accessibility, ACCESS and SIUE have excelled at the inclusion of all students as the y achieve their educational goals.