In the 1980s the DSP published an article in its newsletter, DSP Verbatim, about a support group whose members had various non-visible disabilities. Till this day the DSP provides a newsletter to students that subscribe, in order to make the students aware of different opportunities.

In the 1980s increasingly more students with non-visible disabilities enrolled into the Disabled Students Program. Many of these students were not provided with necessary accommodations at times, due to the fact that their disabilities were not clearly visible. These disabilities ranged from learning disabilities, to immune system problems that attack the body and subsequently, go into remission. DSP was presented with a problem when many people, including some professors, would discriminate these students because they ‘looked fine’. In effect, these disabled students were often “isolated” and “not-taken seriously by professors.”

In order to aid the students with ‘hidden disabilities’ the DSP tried to encourage them to join this support group via its newsletter. The DSP also wrote letters to faculty making them aware that such disabilities exist, in the hopes that these students would be better accommodated.