In Class Accommodations

• Note Takers
  • If your documentation qualifies you for this service, you may have peers in your classes take notes for you. Once this accommodation is approved by your ASD counselor, you must meet with the Manager of Accommodative Services (April Crawford). At that time you will sign a contract and be given a form to take with you to class so that you may identify a note taker.
• Stenographer
  • This is a real-time captioning service in class, provided for those who qualify.
• Transcriber (TypeWell)
  • This is a service provided in class for those who qualify. TypeWell is a method of providing real-time communication access to Deaf and Hard of Hearing students through the use of speech-to-text transcription services. TypeWell allows a typist, commonly referred to as a transcriber, to increase the number of words per minute typed by using abbreviated forms of words, which eliminates unnecessary keystrokes. The TypeWell abbreviation system is spelling based, and use of the abbreviation system becomes an extension of a transcriber's already existing typing skills. TypeWell does not provide verbatim transcripts, but instead aims for a meaning-for-meaning transcript, similar to an interpretation provided by a sign language interpreter.
• Sign Language Interpreters
  • ASL and CASE available
• Cued Speech Transliterator
  • This is a service provided in class for those who qualify. You must first have this accommodation approved by either your ASD Counselor or the Advisor for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The cueing of a traditionally spoken language is the visual counterpart of speaking it. Cueing makes available to the eye(s) the same linguistic building blocks that speaking avails the ear(s). Until the advent of cueing, the term spoken language accurately described what had been the only way of distinctly conveying these building blocks: speaking. In fact, until that time, the sounds of speech and the building blocks were thought of as one and the same. (found on http://web7.mit.edu/CuedSpeech/cue_definition.html)