Crowder College
www.crowder.edu
601 Laclede Avenue
Neosho, MO 64850
(417) 455-5624 voice
(417) 455-5625 fax

Name of Office: Office of disAbility Services
Contact Person: Amy Frieling
Email Address: afrielin@crowder.edu
Number of Staff: 2 Full-Time
Number of Specialists: 1 TBI
  1 Deaf / Hard of Hearing
  1 Other
Type of Institution: 2-year
  Open Admissions
  Public
  Day
  Evening
  Commuter
  Residential
Total Student Population: 3000
Students with Disabilities: 50+
Other Accessibility Considerations Accessible Residence Halls
  Barrier Free Campus Terrain                                   
Number of Students By Disability: 10 ADD / ADHD
  10 Brain Injury
  2 Hard of Hearing
  10 Health
  20 Learning Disability
  1 Low Vision
  10 Orthopedic / Mobility
  10 Psychological
  2 Seizure
Accommodations Commonly Provided: Instructor Notification
  Taping Lectures
  Large Print
  Interpreters
  Course Substitution
  Testing
                                                                                       Reader (out-of-class)
  Alternative Text (information, institutional member)
  Notetaker (volunteer)
Assistive Technology Available: Closed Captioning
  Daisy Players
  Grammar Check
  MP3 Player
  Scanning
  Screen Reader
  Speech Recognition
  Spell Check
  TTY
Other Services Provided: Orientation
  Career Counseling
  Tutoring
  Learning Resource Labs
  Sign Language Classes
  Job Placement
  Employment Resources
Documentation Requirements: Current - 3 years
  Statement from Qualified Professional
  Signature of Qualified Professional
  History of Disability
  Description of Current Functioning
Tests Accepted for LD Documentation: WAIS, WJ-Cognitive, WJ-Achievement, SB, WIAT
Additional Information: One staff member who knows conversational sign language
and has a degree in Deaf Education. One staff who has
worked with the TBI population for 5 years.
  At any given semester, we serve approximately 50 people.
There are also 50+ people who are in the stages of applying
for services so, there are over 100 people who have
identified with our office but only 50 or so actually receiving
accommodations. Many people have dual diagnosis.
Additional Costs:  


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