Show Handicapped Students Are A by Terry A Accordino Part Of Too Utah's new Salt Lake Community College formerly formerly offers many services to the physically handicapped to make their education a little easier Parking spaces for the handicapped the are reserved by law for only those vehicles displaying the handicapped symbol Drivers who are cited for illegal parking in these designated stalls are breaking the law and will be fined up to twenty six dollars Everyone has noticed that most curbs on campus have a small ramp to facilitate wheelchair access and there are ramps to th the entrances of every building Elevators inside the buildings are for the use of everyone but there are signs posted to remind us of specific use for the handicapped Special Services is a department on campus that will aid anyone in need Their main goal is to help students become independent and nd more capable to meet the of college l life e. e They help provide van pools scribes for those who are unable to write readers for the blind and many other services for forthe the physically handicapped The partially blind will have access to a machine 4 that IJ t enlarges printed material by percent percent- N a 1 i L. L 3 The campus library has textbooks and daily newspapers pers taped on cassettes and a braile writer for notes and letters Without Special Services 95 percent of the physically handicapped would be unable to attend college Nearly one half of one percent of all students at are physically handicapped but they are normal college students with the same basic needs Their handicap is merely an inconvenience to their mobility and occasionally to their studies The end result is the need for a good college education The following excerpt from the Wall Street Journal bv by United Technologies Corporation of Hartford Connecticut well explains that the handicapped had an important role in American history ANYTHING YOU CAN DO THEY CAN DO TOO While you flex your muscles in front of your morning mirror and congratulate con con- te yourself on nimble brain your consider this the light over your mirror was perfected by a deaf man while your morning morning- radio plays remember the hunchback who helped invent it If you listen to contemporary contemporary music you may hear an artist who is blind If you prefer classical you may ay enjoy a symphony written by a composer who couldn't hear The President who set an unbeatable American political record could hardly JJ walk alk A woman oma born rn unable lQ to see speak or hear stands as a great reat achiever In American merican hIstory y The handicaPPed can n enrich our lives Lets Let's enrich theIrs |