Integrating students with an impairment

Do you have a major functional disability, learning disability or mental health problem? Student Services (SS) has established a range of tools and facilities to help you integrate easily into HEC Montréal’s academic environment. It also serves as an intermediary between students and various external support organizations.

Major functional disabilities include:

• Significant hearing loss (70 dB or more)
• Significant visual impairment (visual acuity of no more than 6/21 or field of vision of less than 60 degrees)
• Motor impairment with major and persistent limitations (loss, malformation or systemic anomaly of the skeletal, muscular or neurological systems responsible for motor skills)
• Organ impairment with major and persistent limitations (trouble or anomalies with internal organs that are part of the cardiopulmonary, gastrointestinal or endocrine system)

Other examples of impairments recognized by the ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS):

• Language or speech impairment
• Paralysis affecting a single limb
• Paresis (partial paralysis) affecting one or more limbs
• Hearing ability of between 25 and 70 dB

How to get help?

Recognition of an impairment

A few useful sites

How to get help?

Contact Student Services by e-mail once you have chosen your courses for guidance on the steps to take to obtain financial or physical assistance, as well as any information you might need.

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Recognition of an impairment

The MELS has the authority to officially acknowledge a major functional disability of the province’s permanent residents. It administers an allowance program for special needs.

Once your major functional disability is acknowledged, you may be eligible for financial aid in the form of a bursary even if you are a part-time student. If not, you may be eligible for the government’s allowance program for special needs, which provides financial assistance for the purchase of equipment or human resources services that can compensate for your impairment.

Refer to the Major Functional Disability section of the government’s loans and bursaries program site and the Allowance for Special Needs Program for further details.

Note that the Application for financial assistance for special needs must be signed by the psychologist in charge of student integration at Student Services. Forms are also available from Student Services, where the psychologist in charge of student integration can provide you with any guidance you might need in dealing with the MELS.

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A few useful sites

• The Canadian Mental Health Association
• Learning Disabilities Association of Quebec (LDAQ)
• Office des personnes handicapées du Québec
• Société de transport de Montréal (STM) Paratransit Service
• HEC Montréal Career Management Services (CMS)
• Comité d'adaptation de la main-d'œuvre (CAMO) pour personnes handicapées
• Multi-Ethnic Association for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities

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