How A UW Department or Unit Provides Interpreting or Captioning

For academically required requests for enrolled students who are Deaf or hard of hearing, the McBurney Disability Resource Center provides interpreting and captioning.

For non-academically required requests, individual university departments are responsible for arranging and funding interpreting and captioning services.

The two memos below outline the funding responsibilities and the reimbursement procedures for interpreters or captioners.

• UW-Madison Accommodation Funding Responsibility (Memo from Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell)
• Reimbursement Procedures for Services Rendered by a Sign Language Interpreter or Real Time Captioner (Memo from Steve Lund, Director of the Academic Personnel Office

• Arranging Interpreting Services
• Arranging Captioning Services