Adaptive Technology Coordinator, Disability Resource Center

Job description

The Adaptive Technology Coordinator works with students, faculty, staff, and administration to identify the impact of specific disabilities presenting challenges to student learning and to develop accessibility strategies to promote student learning. This position includes alternative text, academic adaptive technologies, including blind and low-visions specific technologies, furniture accommodations, and completes access appointments to determine reasonable accommodations. - Responsible for making immediate decisions regarding the access of learning materials in alternate format and reasonable technological accommodations based on the impact of a disability - Maintains and further develops the Adaptive Technology (AT) program at UTC, which includes alternative text production, management of appropriate software and management of adaptive technology tools - Trains students and staff on the use of adaptive technology tools - Collaborates on campus-wide compliance to the standards set forth by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act/WCAG 2.0 AA Standards and works towards developing a universal approach to information access on the campus - Reviews medical documentation, ensuring compl...