Support Services and Instruction
Support services that are available through the Partners in Access to College Education (PACE) Counselors include:
- Registration assistance
- Disability related counseling
- Career and personal counseling
- Evaluation of documentation to verify disability and determination of educational limitations
- Determination of specific impact of disability on educational responsibilities each semester
- Authorization of accommodations
- Coordination and referral to campus and community resources
- Advocacy related to disability
- General education related to disabilities and their impact
- Provision of learning strategies training
- Orientation workshops
- Screening and evaluation for learning disability
Academic accommodations that are directly related to classroom instruction are coordinated through the Partners in Access to College Education (PACE) Office.
Examples include:
- Use of auxiliary aids
- Scribes
- Note providers
- Specialized tutoring
- American Sign Language interpreters
- Real-time captioning
- Recorded lectures
- Proctored course examinations involving the use of accommodations
Accommodations that are categorized as using assistive technology.
Examples include:
- Converting textbooks to an audio format
- Converting printed text to Braille
- Provision of text to voice technology
- Provision of voice to text technology
- Adapted computers
- Assistive technology and software
- Creating raised line course material for the visually impaired
- Provision of computer screen reading technology for the visually impaired
- Provision of enlarged course material
- Arranging for special chairs, tables, and ergonomic devices to be in classrooms for students with back and neck injuries or conditions such as cerebral palsy
Additional accommodations include:
- Specialized orientation to environmental/physical aspects of the district facilities
- College-wide transportation services that are accessible
- Accommodations for co-curricular activities that are required as part of a class