Access Program Specialist- Categorically Funded

Job Title

Assistive Technology Specialist

Barstow Community College is an open-access, comprehensive two-year institution serving a diverse student population in the Mojave region of San Bernardino County, California. The College's campus is located in the City of Barstow, California, situated in California's high desert, between Los Angeles, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Established in 1959, the Barstow Community College District (BCCD) encompasses a vast service area, stretching from the Nevada border on the East to Kern County on the West, and from Inyo County in the North to the San Bernardino Mountain range in the South.

BCCD serves the communities of Barstow, Lenwood, Newberry Springs, Daggett, Yermo, Hinkley, Ludlow and Baker. The institution also maintains a satellite learning center at the U.S. Army National Training Center in Ft. Irwin, California, which serves military personnel and their families. Barstow Community College is committed to providing an equitable, accessible, and affordable education to its diverse student body, including local, military, distance education, and historically marginalized student populations.

Through a variety of high-quality and comprehensive degree, certificate, and job skills training programs, we provide holistic student support with clear and diverse educational pathways that provide students with life-long learning and networking opportunities, critical thinking skills, and success in a globalized world. Barstow Community College serves as a hub of innovation and educational excellence, fostering a culture of growth, partnership, and inclusion as the premier college of the California High Desert.

Summary Provides assistive technology, alternate media services and auxiliary aides for students with disabilities. Performs testing, support, and accommodation activities for the ACCESS (DSPS) program under the guidance of an area administrator. Provide support to the area administrator in the hiring, selection, and training of student accommodation support staff (interpreters, note takers, readers) in order to remove barriers and ensure accommodations for students.

Provides faculty and staff with education and guidance regarding the use of various resources to accommodate students with disabilities to increase awareness of disability issues

• Provide a variety of specialized technical student services, testing, support, and accommodation services for participants in the ACCESS program; offer general assistance, support, and encouragement for students participating in the program. Process and confirm receipt of intake forms of students referred to the program as required by Title V and forwards to the ACCESS Counselor for appropriate accommodation.
• Administers and monitors various tests and quizzes. Schedules students for testing in distraction reduced rooms both in ACCESS and at the TLSC.
• Arranges for and schedules program services and/or accommodations resulting from accommodation recommendations.
• Conducts presentations to students about the program and its goals and resources.
• Assists with program registration, orientations and outreach/community activities; ensures that participants have accurate information on forms; answer questions, and forward concerns with the ACCESS program to area administrator.
• Periodically requests IT for installs of new and updated software used in the high technology center. May troubleshoot basic problems with software, referring complex problems to the Management Information Systems department. Maintains inventory records for all equipment and supplies allocated to the program. Processes orders for supplies and equipment as needed.
• Provides adaptive technology in the classroom as needed. Plans, schedules, and trains students in the use of adaptive technologies, for example Smart-Pen and C-Pen. Assists students by administering tests and quizzes in Testing Room and other areas on campus as appropriate.
• Provides training for the face-to-face communication technical device the Ubi-Duo device in various locations on campus. Train staff and faculty on how to communicate with deaf and hard of hearing students using the Ubi-Duo.
• Coordinate and assign deaf students ASL sign language interpreters through RISE Interpreting services according to class schedule or other school events. Assist deaf students completing interpreter requests. Works with Director on renewing annual contract. Communicates with Faculty when ASL interpreters will be working in the classroom.
• Serve as web administrator for bookshare online library: qualify students for bookshare with specific disabilities such as dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers. Assign students user name and passwords – assign digital books to students from online library. Train students on the reading software features.
• Educate and train students, staff and instructors as needed on how to utilize appropriate software features…