Strategies and Technologies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Dialogue Day
January 24, 2003

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maricopa adaptive equipment

In 2001, The Maricopa Community College's Governing Board approved a special budget request for approximately $170,000 from the Disability Services Council, Deans of Student Services, and District Legal Department to provide specific equipment, hardware and software to be made available at the colleges:

• PIV Compaq Computer w/ 21" monitor
  (all campuses)
  
  
• Canon DR-3060 Scanner (high speed-multiple mode scanner)
  (all campuses)
  
  

• SmartView² 8000 (Video magnifier)
  (all campuses)
  
  
• Hearing Helper FM Systems (Broadcasts the speaker's voice directly to the ears of the listener)
  (all campuses)
  
  
• SuperPrint 4425 (advanced, full featured TTY)
  (all campuses)
  
  
• RBT 40 / Baum Vario 40 (Refreshable Braille Terminal)
  (4 purchased and available for checkout district-wide through Scottsdale Community College)
  
  

• Tiger Advantage Embosser (personal computer printer for embossing high resolution tactile graphics and Braille)
  (3 of these were purchased, located at Phoenix College, Glendale Community College, and Scottsdale Community College)
  
  
• Software:
  1. ZoomText Xtra (screen reader and magnifier)
     (2 licenses per campus)
  2. Read Please (screen reader, text to speech)
     (2 licenses per campus)
  3. Jaws (screen reader)
     (2 licenses per campus)
  4. Dragon Naturally Speaking (speech recognition)
     (2 licenses per campus)
  5. OmniPage Pro (document scanning)
     (1 licenses per campus)
     

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