About Us - Welcome to DAS
Disability and Access Services (DAS) models best practices for access, enabling people of diverse abilities to engage with MIT.
Disability and Access Services (DAS) enables an accessible campus experience at MIT by:
- Ensuring access for qualified students with disabilities
- Consulting on digital accessibility, assistive technology, and user experience
2022 DAS Student Survey Results
DAS launched our first annual student survey in January 2022. Students provided feedback about their experiences getting support and disability accommodations, and about working with DAS and academic department staff.
Comments from students
- “I am so grateful for DAS. Before reaching out to DAS about my ADHD, I did not know what accommodations for ADHD could be like aside from extra time on exams.”
- “I’ve been using (DAS) services for 4 years and (it has) been consistently helpful and everything has run smoothly!”
- “People were very helpful and understanding of my situation.”
Satisfaction and helpfulness of DAS and department staff
- 91.5% of students agreed or strongly agreed that they were satisfied with their experience with DAS
- 91% of students agreed or strongly agreed that academic departmental staff was helpful
Feeling respected during the accommodation process
- 88% of students reported feeling respected by departmental staff during the accommodation process in all of their classes
- 7% of students reported feeling respected by departmental staff during the accommodation process in some of their classes
- 5% of students reported feeling respected by departmental staff during the accommodation process in most of their classes
