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Michael Hudson >> The Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities is focused on helping students become fully
integrated into the MSU mission, functions and programs. We work to integrate students into all aspects of campus life.
Our slogan, Maximizing Ability and Opportunity, is one we are quite proud of. It really talks directly to our core mission.
And that is to keep people involved in the programs and to really help them reach beyond maybe where even they think
they can go to maximize their ability and all of the opportunities that a higher educational institution brings.
Hal Wochholz >> You have just got to have an education. You have got to be able to separate yourself
from the other person walking down the street that wants the same job.
You have got to have some kind of marketable skill to allow you to do that. And that is what Michigan State gave me.
Matt Carbary >> My ADHD and minor cerebral palsy manifested itself into high test anxiety. [instructor speaking]
During class I would just blank out, and I couldn't finish it in time. It was not until my second semester
that someone directed me towards the department and changed my life. [people playing wheelchair basketball]
Amanda Gretka >> RCPD does a lot of stuff for a lot of students. Last I heard there were, I think,
1200 students that are served through RCPD. [screen reader audio] They help us with tests, they help us
with getting books with tons of stuff. And if it wasn’t for RCPD, I am not sure I would make it too far in college. [people talking in lab]
Richard Carlson >> It is a great opportunity for students to come here to reach their goals.
That is what the RCPD is all about -- trying to help students achieve their educational goals.
This is a great institution to do that. [people talking in lab]
Brenda Flanagan >> RCPD does not force you to jump through hoops, it doesn't make you feel different.
That is the difference. If you are feeling like they are going to feel sorry for you and
you don't want people to see you as a really different person, that just doesn't happen with RCPD.
Michael Hudson >> By the time students graduate here, I think many of them have learned to reframe
disability into a new unique experience. They will call them challenges, they will call them
life-changing events. [instructor speaking] But most of the time students find their disabilities
here have just enriched their perception of the world. [instructor speaking]
Matt Carbary >> To accept the help of the RCPD, it took a lot for me to accept my disability.
I had to learn to work with it and to actually see it as a strength. [instructor speaking]
And I think in a lot of ways having it has given a me a better appreciation for what it takes to get through a class.
Gaining knowledge through the RCPD of my disability set me free.
Michael Hudson >> Everybody here is really set on helping students reach their full potential.
And we know that doesn't happen by chance. We know it doesn't happen if we get too involved.
We know it is most effectively done if we can partner with them and kind of push them. Set their goals high.
Support them when things get tough and really help them realize their full potential.
Lou Anna K. Simon >> As I have looked over the number and thought about the number of students who have benefited
from this program that are now very successful alumni, that number is pretty extraordinary.
Matt Carbary >> Without the staff, without the specialists, without the accommodations, I would not have graduated.
Hal Wochholz >> I could not have gotten a quality education engineering degree that I received,
if it had not been for Michigan State's accommodations of the physically challenged at that time.
Amanda Gretka >> Ten years ago I would never have told you I would be teaching anything or anyone,
but at MSU I have kind of learned that I can do just about anything.