Welcome to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services!
Mission Statement
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services (DHHS) exists to provide equal educational access and opportunity to Deaf and Hard of Hearing students through the provision of professional interpreting, speech to text, and advising services. The goals of DHHS are to assist Deaf and Hard of Hearing students with persisting in their education to graduation, with developing self-advocacy skills, and with achieving independence through access to quality education at Valencia. In order to achieve these goals, we strive to work cooperatively with all members of the campus community. Introduction
Whether you are a prospective student, a returning student, a
parent or family member of a student, or an interested browser,
we welcome you and hope you find this website informative.
Valencia Community College has a long history of opening the doors
of educational opportunity to all qualified Deaf and hard of hearing
students.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services (DHHS) is part of the Office
for Students with Disabilities (OSD). DHHS has a team of interpreters
and speech to text providers who serve deaf students who participate in
our educational programs and campus activities. Interpreters and
speech to text providers are available on all our campuses.
Julie Balassa is the Assistant Director of the OSD in charge of DHHS. It is her responsibility
oversee services for our Deaf and hard of hearing students on every
Valencia campus. She is also responsible for Assitive Technology services
college-wide.
Our main goal is to assist Deaf and hard of hearing students to
enjoy a successful college career and to develop skills necessary for academic and career success.
We encourage our Deaf and hard of hearing students to participate
in all campus activities and to integrate themselves with their
peers into all aspects of college life.
Locations and Hours of Operation
For detailed locations of our Office for Students
with Disabilities (OSD) on each campus, please visit the OSD website
at http://valenciacc.edu/osd or navigate to Related
Links on the left pane on this page and click on the Office for
Students with Disabilities link. There is a link to an online campus
map at the bottom of this page.
Office Hours:
- Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
- Summer: Monday-Thursday 8:00am-5:00pm, Friday 8:00am-12:00pm
OSD telephone numbers:
East Campus
- voice (407) 582-2229
- tty (407)582-2122
- fax (407) 582-8908
West Campus
- voice (407) 582-1523
- tty (407)582-1222
- fax (407) 582-1326
Osceola Campus
- voice (407) 582-4167
- tty (407)582-4295
- fax (407) 582-4804
Winter Park Campus
- voice (407) 582-6887
- tty (407)582- 6097
- fax (407) 582-6915
Julie Balassa
Office:
Services
Services include:
- Interpreters
- C-print
- CART
- Remote real-time captioning
- Voice Recognition speech to text
- Assitive Listening Device loans
- Collaboration with OSD advisors to provide assistance with educational
and career plans, admission, course selection, and registration
To Register with DHHS
Please refer to the steps listed in the Student Handbook.
- Documentation guidelines and forms are available in the OSD
on each campus or on the OSD Website at http://valenciacc.edu/osd/forms.asp.
Confidentiality
We adhere to strict right-to-privacy guidelines and ethical standards,
including the NAD-RID Code of Professional Conduct. Therefore, no
information exchanged during meetings between a student and the
Coordinator of DHHS and during the process of interpreting or providing
speech-to-text services will be divulged to any outside parties
without proper releases.
Request for Services
To request interpreter or speech-to-text services, please click
on the link below:
Online Interpreter/Speech-to-Text
Request Form
(Please note: according to Valencia policy, it is the
student's responsibility to request services by filling out this
form.)
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