Services for Students with Disabilities
SSD facilitates the academic success of students with disabilities through the provision of
appropriate educational supports and settings while nurturing personal development.” This
commitment is consistent with the guidelines set forth by the Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and the ADA
Amendments Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-325).
Core Activities and Performance
Core Activity
Key PI
Indicators
Intake interview and review of documentation Percentage of students surveyed indicating they understand SSD Survey
proceedures
Results
Coordination and provision of Reasonable
Accommodations
Students requesting accommodations should satisfactorily receive Survey
them on a timeley basis
Results and
Staff
reporting
Assistive technology
Percentage of students utilizing AT for academic work after being Survey and
trained
sign in SSD
LAB tallies
Specialized Academic advisement
Volume of service
Advisement
Count
Tutoring for remediation
Student progress
Tutoring
Attendance
and final
grade check
Academic support workshops for Students
with Disabilities
Student progress
GPA
Outreach Activities
Number of Community Contacts
number of
visits
Department-Sponsored Staff Development Activities
Activity Type
Topic
Date
Total
CUNY Accessibility Conference
8/4/2011
150
SSD New Student Orientation
8/18/2011
101
Tutor/Proctor Training
8/26/2011
10
Tutor Poctor Training for SSD
1/26/2012
10
Introduction to Tactile Gaphics production
2/24/2012
27
Disability Awareness celebration
4/4/2012
65
Assitive Technolgy for Students with Learning DisabiltyDisabilities
5/2/2012
19
Tutoring Students with Learning Disabilities
8/24/2011
77
New faculty Orientation of Accommodating Students with Disabilities
8/25/2011
25
Presenation to College Discovery Tutoring students with Learning Disabiliies
and Assistive Technolgies
9/29/2011
22
Clip presentation
10/4/2011
42
Henry Viscardi High School
12/12/2011
9
both
gave presentations
Department-Sponsored Staff Development Activities
Activity Type
Topic
Date
Total
Forest Hills High Scool
3/16/2012
8
William Cullen Bryant High School
4/19/2012
19
Workshop "Transitioning to College" for student with Disabilities at the Big
Apple Fair at Jacob Javits
4/22/2012
100
Long Islan City High School
5/4/2012
7
Thomas Edison High School
5/18/2012
5
Lowell School
5/18/2012
15
Collaboration between SSD and Libraries for students with Disabilities
5/29/2012
25
Represent CATS and QCC SSD at SUNY Librarians Association at FIT
conference on collaboration
6/6/2012
500
Freshman Welcome
6/18/2012
37
Assitive Technology For Blind Low vision
9/16/2011
25
organized
Professional Achievements and Activities of Individual Staff
Achievement Type
Other
First Name
Last Name
Achievement
Semester
Sharone
Bartolomeo
Dyscalculia Math conference at City
College
Spring 2012
Ben
Freier
Attended conference for New York
Spring 2012
State Disability Council members to
review updates on the laws pertaing
to accommodating students with
disabilities both in the classroom and
those enrolled in on-line courses..
Ben
Freier
Attended webinar on best practices in Fall 2011
accommodating students with
Learning Disabilities
Ben
Freier
ADA Revised Regulations
training at COSA with
Salome Heyward ESQ
Carlos
Herrera
4th Annual Veterans Affairs
Spring 2012
Professional Development Conference
Carlos
Herrera
Dyscalculia Math conference at City
College
Carlos
Herrera
CUNY Office of Student Affairs
Spring 2012
(COSA) lecture series at CUNY School
of social work. " Today's Students
and Technology"
Carlos
Herrera
CUNY Office of Student Affairs
(COSA) professional development "
Presidential Symposium / ACPA at
Kingsborough community college
Spring 2012
Carlos
Herrera
Profesional development conference
at Baruch Center for Visually
Impaired " Employment and People
with Vision Impairments"
Spring 2012
Conference, workshop,
training attended
Spring 2012
Spring 2012
Professional Achievements and Activities of Individual Staff
Achievement Type
Other
First Name
Last Name
Achievement
Semester
Carlos
Herrera
Completed " Military Cultural
Competence Training Certificate" on
student affairs issues at COSA
Spring 2012
Ben
Freier
Served on committee writing a grant Spring 2012
to fund a program to help support
students with Autism Spectrum
Disorder ASD
Ben
Freier
Serving 2 year term as Co Chair of
COSDI, CUNY's council on student
disability issues.
Fall 2011
Ben
Freier
Serve as Co Chair of COSDI, CUNY's
council on student disability issues.
Spring 2012
Ben
Freier
Sat on CUNY Central Committee on
Fall 2011
Accommodating Disabled Students in
ACE
Ben
Freier
Coordinated, wrote, and finalized
Summer 2011
eligibility requirements for SWD
needing a course substitution of QCC
Degree requirement of math in
Liberal Arts Curriculum
Service as a
reviewer/editor/
consultant
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Changes in Department within Last Year
Change Type
Change
Reason
Semester
Services
Academic Skills Coaching Project for students Address at risk SSD students. Work to Fall 2011
with disabilities
improve CUNY pass rates, and improve
overal GPA strengthening needed
academic skills.
CUNY LEADS project has been formalized
The overall success of CUNY LEADS led Spring 2012
with the addition of a "line item" in the CUNY to CUNY formalizing into a service
budget.
provided.
Assessment and Evaluation
KPI
Target Outcome
Actual Outcome
Action Plan
Status
Provision of exam
accommodations
100% accuracy
100% accurate
Continue existing
methods of training
personnel and increase
follow up sessions with
students
Continuing
Assessment Plan
Core Activity
KPI
Determining Reasonable
Accommodations for
students with disabilities
Percentage of Students
100% understanding of procedures
indicating they understand
SSD procedures for recieving
their accommodations
Coordination and provision Receipt of accommodations
of accommodations as per appropriatley and on time.
the ADA
Target Outcome
100% accuracy
Plan
Student Surveys after SSD
Orientation
Review student survey
results.
Monitor and continued
training of staff. Increase
follow up with students
requiring intensive support
services