Adaptive Equipment

To obtain this accommodation, contact your Disability Services Counselor for details on how to access adaptive equipment.

PCC makes adaptive equipment available to all eligible students. Items include:

  • AlphaSmarts (simple word processing devices for notes and in-class writing assignments)
  • Assistive Computer Technology (screen magnifiers and readers, alternative keyboards and pointers, text-to-speech programs, and idea organization programs)
  • Audio Recording Devices (digital and tape)
  • DAISY-formatted audio players (Victor readers)
  • Electronic Print Enlarger Machines (CCTV)
  • Furniture (special tables and chairs)
  • MagniLinks (portable video magnifier with laptop computer)
  • Perkins Braillers
  • Personal FM listening devices
  • Scanners
  • Talking calculators
  • Talking dictionaries
  • Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf:
    • Cascade Campus
      • Student Services Building, payphone at street level entrance
      • Student Center Building, library, free
    • Central Portland Workforce Training Center
      • Payphone at street level entrance
    • Portland Metro Workforce Training Center
      • Career Center (no charge for career center trainees/emergency calls)
    • Rock Creek Campus
      • Building 9, Information Center (no charge)
    • Southeast Center
      • Mt. Tabor Hall, payphone at street level entrance near Crossroads CafĂ©
    • Sylvania Campus
      • College Center (CC) Building, payphone behind Information near the glass doors
      • Health Technology (HT) Building, payphone on lower level near parking lot doors
      • Science Technology (ST) Building, Disability Access Services office
  • VideoPhone for deaf students (located in the Sylvania DAS office in ST 229)