Consumer Information - Disability Services
The offices of Disability Services at CCC&TI are located in Room F151 on the Caldwell Campus and in Room 110 of the Instructional Facility on the Watauga Campus. Disability services provides comprehensive, quality support to students with disabilities to insure access to the programs and offerings at CCC&TI. Personnel in Disability Services work with students, instructors, staff and others to coordinate accommodations and other support services for all qualified students with disabilities.
In order to be eligible for services, a student must provide current documentation from an appropriate, licensed professional service provider. Acceptable documentation includes a medical report, psychological evaluation, physician’s report or records from the Division of Services for the Blind, Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and/or Vocational Rehabilitation.
Section 504/American with Disabilities Act
No otherwise qualified handicapped individual shall, solely by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in, or benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination by any public or private entity. The American with Disabilities Act define disability as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities such as walking, talking, seeing, hearing, learning, breathing, working; or having a record of such impairment; or being regarded as having one.
Confidentiality
CCC&TI will not share specific information about a student’s disability with anyone, including faculty, without that student’s written permission.
How to Obtain Services
Students may receive assistance by doing the following:
- Notify Teena McRary in Disability Services at the Caldwell campus at (828) 726-2724 or by email at tmcrary@cccti.edu or Nancy Leonard at the Watauga campus (828) 297-3811 or by email at nleonard@cccti.edu.
- Provide Disability Services with current documentation of the disability.
- Request accommodations and auxiliary aids in a timely fashion.
- Schedule follow-up visits regularly with Disability Services, at least once at the beginning of each semester. We want to know how students are doing and how we can help.
