ADA Title II, which includes federal and state institutions, requires that federal or state entity services, programs, and activities must be accessible to qualified persons with disabilities in the most integrated setting possible. Qualified means that the person has documentation, is self-identified, and has been admitted to the university. Provisions for assistive technology for students in post-secondary education require each college or university to provide at least one station in every public student computer lab to be accessible. The learning-disabled population has tripled. As the law requires that all services, programs, and activities be accessible to students with disabilities, the above need to be accessible.
Assistive technology makes that access possible.
Some student labs at ISU already have a few basic components of assistive technology, e.g., a scanner, a wheelchair-height computer table, and mobility software assistive technology through Windows 95. We hope that the lab managers will let us know through the survey what resources are currently available in student labs and what assistive technology the students need.