Many students strive to succeed in college and some students with disabilities might require more help than others.
These students need accommodations like ramps, disabled parking, interpreters for the blind, notetakers and computers programs like text to speech or ZoomText on the computers that will help these college students.
LBCC seems to only put in the bare minimum to help assist their students with health conditions or impairments.
Most of the accommodations that LBCC supplies to their disabled students are hard to use or receive.
The school takes a while to build programming to help the visually impaired participate in events and classes.
As well as the time frame, some things around campus that are meant to help disabled students are unhelpful, such as ramps on campus that are too dangerous for someone in a wheelchair to use without assistance.
The college does want to help students, and installs door opening buttons for disabled people to get through without assistance, but these buttons are usually only on first floor doors or bathrooms, and not on bathroom doors on a building’s second or third floor.
The buttons are also difficult for visually impaired students to find independently if they are unfamiliar with the layout of a building.
The signs around LAC can be confusing since many of the signs around are very small and difficult to read.
Disabled Students Program & Services help students in the classroom and outside of class.
The problem with DSPS is that there is only one building at LAC and PCC and not enough staff to help disabled students get accommodations.
Students also may not even know what DSPS can help them with or how to access that information.
The college needs to improve on putting more ramps and railings near staircases, keeping the elevators functional and putting more disabled parking.
LBCC may think it is doing enough for its disabled students and following ADA guidelines, but those basics are not everything disabled students need to succeed on campus.
Some ways are to help include hiring more employees in DSPS, more custodians to keep the elevators functional and make sure that only a disabled person with a placard is parking in the disabled parking spots.
LBCC needs to make the school more accommodating for their disabled students. Students in college want every opportunity to succeed and so do disabled students.