Disability Services
Disability Services
The Office of Disability Services at Pine Technical College helps to "level the playing field" by eliminating barriers and discrimination against persons with disabilities. The Office offers certain accommodations, support and other resources. All services are offered confidentially.
By law, a person with a disability includes "any person who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activity and has a record as having such an impairment."
Disability services offered at Pine Technical College assist students with any of the following conditions: limited vision, blind, deaf, hard of hearing, learning disability (dyslexia, IEP in high school, ADD/HD, etc.), speech disability, mobility disability, chemical dependency, mental impairment (depression, anxiety, etc.), chronic and systemic illness (AIDS, Arthritis, Cancer, Multiple sclerosis, Diabetes, Muscular dystrophy, Psychiatric disabilities), epilepsy, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury. (This list is not conclusive.)
It is the student’s responsibility to request disability services. Services are available with necessary documentation dating within the last three years. Documentation must be from the original sources of diagnosis. Contact the Director of Disability Services, Gloria Baker, at bakerg@pinetech.edu or by phone, 320-629-5174, at the beginning of each semester to ensure accommodations and other needs are anticipated.
Helpful Tools
-- Learning Disabilities
-- Attention Deficit Disorder
-- Depression
-- Traumatic Brain Injury
-- Anxiety Disorders
-- Faculty Guide
Student Study Brochures
-- Listening and note taking skills
-- Reading skills
-- Textbook study strategies
-- Success skills
-- Test-taking skills
-- Writing skills
Available Services and Accommodations
-- Extended Test Time
-- Books on CD
-- Note Taking
-- Interpreter
-- Readers
-- Assistive Technology
-- Alternative Test Site
To schedule an appointment, contact Gloria Baker, bakerg@pinetech.edu or by phone at 320-629-5174.
"We Connect Now"
We Connect Now (not affiliated with PTC) is dedicated to uniting people interested in rights and issues affecting people with disabilities, with particular emphasis on college students and access to higher education and employment issues. One of this site's goals is to help college students with learning disabilities to succeed in their studies by getting information and support they may need -- through resources, news, published laws and regulations and through personal contacts.
