The Center for Alternative Customized
College Education for Special Students
(Center for A.C.C.E.S.S.)

Discover more about our ACCESS program Ginny Carson and Lionel Harris, CEED Center for ACCESS tell us about a 40 year old program that has been serving students with disabilities by providing education and workforce training opportunities.

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CCBC PROGRAMS FOR SPECIAL STUDENTS

• Center for A.C.C.E.S.S.
• Single Step Program
• CCBC Harbour Horizons

CENTER FOR A.C.C.E.S.S.

Honoring Abilities and Needs

The Center for A.C.C.E.S.S. provides customized contract training to non-profit agencies and providers working with individuals in the community who have developmental, emotional or physical disabilities. For more than four decades, CCBC's Center for A.C.C.E.S.S. has chosen to empower people with disabilities by providing courses in basic education, vocational preparation, life skills training, personal enrichment and creative arts courses at both residential facilities and community day habilitation programs. Each year we help adults build new skills, improve organizational skills, learn effective ways to deal with workplace issues, hone their social skills, explore avenues for creativity and learn how to live independently. Courses are taught with a variety of teaching modalities to reach learners with different learning styles. Instructors have subject matter expertise and have experience working with various populations. The Center also develops courses specifically geared toward agency need. Recognizing that families and caregivers play critical roles, the Center also provides important support through specialized classes to those who work directly with the special needs population.

Success Starts Here

• Skills for living and working in the community.
• Confidence building in activities of daily living.
• Providing outlets for leisure skills and creativity.
  

Achieve

• GED Preparation and functional academics
• Enrichment and Adaptive Skills Training
• Independent and Community Living Skills
• Leisure time, education and recreation
• Vocational Transition
  

Course Offerings

• Academic Skills Enhancement
• Analyzing and Evaluating Current Issues
• Anger Management
• Art and Music
• Assertiveness Training
• Basic Math
• Basic Reading
• Computer Literacy
• Critical Reading
• Decision Making
• GED Preparation
• Gross Motor Skills
• Health and Wellness
• Independent Living Skills
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• Job Readiness
• Language Arts - Basic Reading
• Loss and Grief
• Lyric Writing
• Money Management
• Nutrition
• Sewing
• Sign Language
• Stress Management
• Time Management
• Vocational Readiness
• Vocational, Social and Communication Skills
  

For more information or to arrange classes for your organization, email Ginny Carson or call her at 410-455-4355

SINGLE STEP PROGRAM
For over 35 years, the Community College of Baltimore County Single Step Program has been changing lives by providing programs for adults with disabilities. Single Step provides students with academic, pre-vocational, social, and independent living skills necessary for success in college study, employment, and adult life.

Students' development is supported through:
· Basic skills instruction specifically designed for special learners
· 6-1 student-teacher ratio
· Community-based field trips
·
Interactive learning activities designed to connect learning with students' real lives, goals, and communities.
Transition Program Courses Include:
· Language Arts
· Mathematics
· Computer Literacy
· Skills and Concepts for Employment
· Skills and Concepts for Independent Living

Register now for Fall 2008! Evening and Weekend courses include:
· Beginning Literacy for Special Learners
· Interpersonal and Communication Skills
· Literacy and the Young Child
· Mathematics and the Young Child
· Science and the Young Child
· Managing the Early Childhood Classroom
· Basic Skills for Independent Travel
· Writing and Speaking Skills
· Culinary Calculations: Math, Money, Food, and Dining
· The Garden Project: Geometry, Art and Science in Your Own Backyard
· Basic Skills and Concepts for Visual Arts
· The New Frontier: From Entitlement to Eligibility

Certificate Options
· Childcare (Maryland State Certificate)
· Warehouse and Forklift Safety
· Clerical and Office Skills

For more information, registration and interview dates, please call our office at 410-285-9762 or email singlestep@ccbcmd.edu

Single Step Program and Talmar Gardens and Horticulture

The Garden Project
This 10-hour course is designed to help you build the perfect garden using basic geometry, measurement, basic botany, and basic design principles.

This course will teach you:
· How plants grow and develop
· How to identify plants indigenous to the Mid-Atlantic
· Basic steps in the care of plants and flowers
· How to use math to plant a garden
· How to use basic geometry skills to design a garden
· How to use color in basic floral design
· Styles of garden design

Clerical and Office Skills Program
This program provides individualized instruction in the methods used in general offices and use of basic office technology for adults with learning challenges

Students learn:
• Telephone etiquette
• To create memos, emails, and take messages
• Appropriate business language and etiquette
• To type faster and with increased accuracy
• To organize and create files
• To use standard office fax machines, copiers and voicemail
• To manage time, calendars, and basic records.
• Independent employment skills needed to get and keep a job!

For more information, registration and interview dates, please call our office at 410-285-9762 or email Singlestep@ccbcmd.edu.

CCBC Harbour Horizons
Offering Courses in Fall 2008

The Harbour Horizons Program is a two year, five day a week college experience in partnership with Harbour School/Innovative Learning Inc. The program is offered for students with mild to moderate learning differences who want to learn to live and work independently while earning a non-credit completion certificate.

Horizons students learn to:
• manage personal finances,
• read and write for independent living,
• use computers for independent living,
• study issues of health and wellness,
• study issues of civic responsibility and other contemporary issues.
• work and live independently

Location:
CCBC Catonsville
800 South Rolling Road

For more information, contact CCBC at 410-285-9792 or email: jcabana@ccbcmd.edu.