No. STAR serves three populations:
- Students with documented disabilities
- Students with limited English proficiency
- Students with technical and career majors
The student should contact STAR at extension 2230 or visit the office in J-2025 to make an appointment for an intake interview.
No. Students must have current documentation and must request accommodations. The documentation must
indicate that the student's disability or health concerns affect a major life area such as walking,
hearing, seeing, or learning.
STAR provides academic accommodations based on each student's educational needs as determined by the
student's verification of his/her disability and information gathered during the intake process. Examples
of documentation that may be required are as follows:
- Learning Disabilities - Recent psychological testing.
- ADD/ADHD - Statement from a diagnosing professional stating: the nature of disability, date of
diagnosis and recommendations for classroom accommodations.
- Hearing Disabilities - Recent audiogram or ontological report.
- Vision Disabilities - Ophthalmologist report giving visual acuity and degree of blindness.
- Mobility Disabilities - Doctor's statement or other medical reports stating the diagnosis
limitation or restrictions and mobility aid being used.
- Psychiatric Disabilities - Statement by diagnosing professional with nature of disability, date of
diagnosis, and recommended educational accommodations.
All new students are interviewed to determine eligibility and appropriate accommodations. Students may then request appropriate accommodations such as:
- Brailled material
- Extended testing times
- Full page and strip magnifiers for reading text
- Large key calculators
- Large-print dictionaries
- Large-print textbooks
- Learning disabilities support
- Monitor screen magnifiers (ZoomText)
- Notetakers for lecture notes
- Orientations to the college and STAR's services
- Reading tests
- Referrals to community service agencies
- Scribing tests
- Sign language interpreter (requires advanced notification)
- Speech to text dictation software - hands free!
- Software that reads printed materials (Kurzweil)
- Stand alone text magnifiers
- Taped textbooks
- Tutoring to improve study habits
- Tutoring in subject content
- Variable speed tape recorders
- Voice-activated computer software
- Tutoring support
- Use of Kurzweil 3000 computer software reads print material and textbooks. This software has built-in dictionaries to aid the student
- Testing accommodations with the written permission from the student's instructor(s)
- Peer tutoring to students enrolled in Nursing, Vet Tech, EEAS
- Tutoring support for most CIOS classes
- Study skills including time management
- Use of Kurzweil 3000 computer software
- Testing accommodations with written permission from the student's instructor(s)
- Test taking strategies
- Test anxiety coping strategies
Notetakers are volunteers, so STAR cannot always guarantee a notetaker! A notetaker is another student in the same class who volunteers to take notes using carbonless (NCR)
paper and after each class session gives a copy to a student who is unable to take notes.
A student must make a request to the STAR coordinator. The coordinator then evaluates the educational
needs of the student by reviewing the documentation that verifies the student's disability and other
information gathered during the intake process.
Start taping your classes from the first day or ask your instructors for a copy of his or her notes.
Joliet Junior College does not have separate classes or "special classes" for students with
disabilities. Students attend regular college level or developmental classes with appropriate academic
support. Students with disabilities may enroll in any class they choose as long as they have met the class
prerequisites. Students with disabilities must be prepared to meet the class objectives which are discussed
at the beginning of the semester by the instructor and listed in the class syllabus.