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St. Louis Community College-Meramec
11333 Big Bend Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63122
http://www.stlcc.edu/access

Updated July 2006

Name of Disability Support Service Office:
Access Office
Contact: Linda Nissenbaum  lnissenbaum@stlcc.edu
Telephone: 314.984.7673
Fax: 314.984.7123

Number of people in Disability Support Service Office:  
6 Full-time and 1 Part-time 

Number of Specialists: 1LD       3Counselors    

Type of Institution:
Open admissions, Public,2-Year, commuter

Current Enrollment:
11000 Total Student Population
    450 Number of Students with Disabilities

Other Accessibility Considerations:
Accessible Web Based Classes/Distance Learning Courses

Approximate Number of Students With Disabilities:

  • 112 ADD/ADHD

  •   22 Aspergers

  •     4 Blind

  •    13 Brain Injury

  •    12 Deaf

  •     9 Developmental Disabilities

  •     5 Hard of Hearing

  •   18 Health Impairments

  •  202 Learning Disabilities

  •     2 Low Vision

  •    12 Orthopedic Impairments

  •    40 Psychiatric

 Accommodations Commonly Provided:

  • Instructor notification

  • Allow for taping of lectures

  • Audio books: information
                        institutional membership
                        conversion service

  • Braille service

  • Course substitutions

  • Interpreters

  • Large print

  • Notetakers: volunteer and paid

  • Speech-to-text transcribers

  • Readers: for in-class

  • Reduced course load

  • Testing accommodations

Assistive Technology Currently Available

  • Alternative keyboards

  • Assistive listening devices

  • Braille capabilities

  • Closed circuit TV

  • Closed captioning

  • Daisy players

  • Enlarged screen

  • 4 track tape players

  • Grammar check

  • MP3 players

  • Scanning capabilities

  • Screen reader

  • Speech recognition

  • Spell check

  • TTY

  • Visual alert systems

  • Word prediction software

  • Wynn/Text Help

Other Services:

  • Orientation

  • Career counseling

  • Special academic advising

  • Learning resource labs

  • Sign language classes

  • Tutoring

  • Personal counseling

  • Advocacy training

  • Job placement assistance

  • Employment resources

  • Adaptive technology training

  • Social Club: Focus on Ability

Documentation requirements for disability program:

     Currency of documentation:   See Website 

    
Other requirements:  

statement of diagnosis

signature of qualified professional

description of current functioning

      Tests accepted for LD documentation:

             WAIS, WJ -Cognitive, Stanford Binet   

              WIAT, WJ- Achievement (See Criteria on Website)