The mission of the El Camino College Special Resource Center (SRC) is to facilitate academic success for students with disabilities by providing equal access to educational opportunities in an integrated campus setting.
Our primary goal is to provide the accommodations necessary to assist students with achieving their educational and vocational goals while promoting self-advocacy and independent learning.
Our office promotes shared responsibility with the student, instructor, and college staff for student success.
The SRC promotes universal design of buildings, media and instruction to increase accessibility for all students.
Support services are related to each individual’s documented educational limitations. The SRC serves students with mobility and vision impairments, the deaf and hard of hearing population, Speech and Language impairments, Learning Disabilities, psychological disabilities, head injuries and other disabilities. A student with a disability is a student who has a verified impairment which limits one or more major life activities and which imposes educational limitations.
Accommodations and services provided by the SRC include priority registration, academic counseling, assessment for a learning disability, orientation, liaison service, test accommodations (additional time, reduced distraction environment, or alternate format), note taking paper to facilitate procuring notes from another student, learning strategies instruction, interpreting services, alternate media (books on tape, caption and visual description), assistive technology, and mobility assistance.
Our High Technology Center (HTC) provides training and access to assistive computer technologies. Some examples are the Kurzweil 3000, a reading software, JAWS, a screen reader, and Dragon Dictate, a voice recognition program. Students have benefitted from using assistive technology to support their academic needs. A student reported, “I can do more in a 40-minute period than I ever could in two hours when using Kurzweil 3000.”
SRC courses provide specialized instruction for students with various types of disabilities and learning styles. The SRC curriculum increases student academic skills, fosters self-advocacy, and enhances student awareness of technological support.
The Adapted Physical Education (APE) program provides adults with disabilities a personalized and self-paced exercise program. APE offers fitness, swimming, yoga and bowling type courses. Wheelchair accessible exercise equipment and other adapted accessories provide greater opportunity for students in their pursuance of improved fitness, skills, and quality of life.
A meeting with an SRC counselor is the first step for students interested in SRC services. It is the student’s responsibility to provide documentation of disability and educational limitations. The SRC can assist with the process of requesting documentation. The next step is to meet with a disability specialist to identify functional limitations and request accommodations.
To learn more about the Special Resource Center come into the office – located on the east side of the Student Services building – or see the SRC student handbook online (http://www.elcamino.edu/academics/src/docs/SRCStudentHandbook-final2.pdf). Phone (310) 660-3295.
