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Services for Students with Disabilities
Specialized Equipment
The College cannot provide personal equipment. Students with disabilities are expected to have their own wheelchairs, hearing aids, and other personal adaptive equipment. COCC does have some adaptive equipment available for student use on campus such as large screen computer monitors and closed circuit TV for persons with visual impairments, and various software including JAWS and ZoomText and an FM loop transmitter/receiver system for students with hearing impairments. To view adaptive equipment available on the COCC campus, go to http://computerlabs.cocc.edu/General+Info/Adaptive+Workstations/default.aspx
Other items available for use by students with disabilities, which can be checked out through the office of Services for Students with Disabilities include:
Laptop computer
1-handed keyboard
Tracball mouse
Screen magnifier
Tape recorder with adjustable variable speed
Hand-held tape recorder with mini-cassettes
Franklin Spellchecker
Comtek FM Loop Listening Device
Mycap Junior Decoder (portable closed caption decoder)
Other available items for use:
ASSET test in Braille - check with CAP or Joyce in BEC
ASSET test on audiotape and also in enlarged print - check with CAP or Joyce in BEC
Basic Power Trainer - in Mazama
High Support Boots to use with Power Trainer - in Mazama
Specialized gloves for wheelchair users in Circuit Training class - in Mazama
IntelliKeys keyboard with Classic overlays and Clickit software - ABE classroom
Available adaptive technology resources include Lewis Jones of Central Oregon Resources for Independent Living (CORIL), 388-8103, and Winslow Parker, Oregon Commission for the Blind, 1-888-202-5463, website: http://www.cfb.state.or.us/, or the Oregon State Library for equipment and book loan, 1-800-452-0292, Oregon State Library - Talking Book and Braille Services. Give them a call!
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