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East Central College
 1964 Prairie Dell Road
Union, MO 63084
www.eastcentral.edu

Updated October 2007

Name of Disability Support Service Office:
Access Services
Contact: Paul Lampe   palampe@eastcentral.edu
             Jenny Kuchem jdkuchem@eastcentral.edu
Telephone: 636.583.5195 ext.2397
TTY: 636.583.4851
Fax: 636.583.1011

Number of people in the Disability Support Service Office:
2 Full-time; 1 Part-time

Number of Specialists:
2 Counselors  1 Assistive Technology, 1 Testing Assistant

Type of Institution:
Open admissions, 2-Year, Public, Day, Evening, Weekend and Commuter

Enrollment:
3,500 approximate total student population
88 number of students with disabilities

Approximate Number of Students

  • 17 ADD/ADHD
  •   1 Aspergers
  •   1 Blind
  •   3 Brain Injury
  •   3 Developmental Disabilities
  •   4 Health Impairment
  • 50 Learning Disabilities
  •   1 Low Vision
  • 12 Orthopedic Impairments/Mobility
  • 14 Psychiatric Impairments

Accommodations Commonly Provided:

  • Instructor Notification
  • Allow for Taping of Lectures
  • Audio Books
    • Information
    • Institutional membership
    • Conversion service
  • Interpreters
  • Notetakers--Volunteer
  • Readers and Scribes for in-class
  • Reduced course load
  • Testing Accommodations

Assistive Technology Currently Available:

  • Alternative keyboards
  • Assistive listening device
  • Braille capabilities
  • Closed circuit TV
  • Daisy players
  • Enlarged screen
  • 4-Track tape players
  • Grammar check
  • MP3 players
  • Scanning capabilities
  • Screen reader
  • Speech recognition
  • Spell check
  • TTY
  • Word prediction software
  • Premier AT software; Text Help, Read Write Gold

Other Services-Available for All Students:

  • Career Counseling
  • Tutoring
  • Adaptive Technology Training

Additional cost for disability program: none

 Documentation requirements for disability program:

Currency of documentation:        3-5 years             
Other requirements: 

statement of diagnosis
signature of qualified professional history of disability
description of current functioning

Tests accepted for LD documentation:
             WAIS,  Stanford Binet  
           WIAT, WJ- Achievement