Students with Disabilities Discovering Key to Academic Success is an Online Degree; October is National Disability Awareness Month

Business Wire, Oct 7, 2005

--Textbooks in audiotape, electronic and Braille format

--Verbal explanations of assignments

--Information on assistive computer software/hardware (such as screen readers for the visually impaired)

--Enlarged-type documents, sign language interpretation, computer-assisted real-time transmission at residential colloquia

For Vida, the combination of a few, reasonable accommodations, as well as the very nature of an online university, has made continuing her education possible. She expects to graduate from Capella with her PhD in 2007, and plans on using her degree to work as a counselor with adolescents and families who are in therapy.

"My disability almost decided for me whether I could actually continue with my education, considering it would be hard to do in a traditional setting," she recalls. "But I was determined to make it work, and I am making it work. I am going to succeed."

About Capella University

Founded in 1993, Capella University is an accredited(a) online university that offers graduate degree programs in business, information technology, education, human services and psychology, as well as a Bachelor of Science online degree program with 10 specializations in business and information technology. The online university currently serves more than 13,000 enrolled learners from all 50 states and 55 countries. Capella University is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capella Education Company, headquartered in Minneapolis. For more information, visit http://www.capella.edu or call 1-888-CAPELLA (227-3552).

(a) Capella University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, located at 30 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504, (312) 263-0456, www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org.