UTC Equipment Services - ADA Requirements

Assisted Listening Systems

In accordance with the American Disabilities Act, various Assisted Listening Systems are installed and being added to classrooms across campus.

Classrooms with more than 49 seats are required to be equipped with an assisted listening system. The systems currently being installed use infrared. Some older systems still exist on campus which use radio signals.

Equipment Services can provide headsets to individual students needing the use of this system. These can be checked out from our main offices at the Martin Luther King Building.

For a listing of rooms equipped with assisted listening systems: Rooms on the Web.

Closed Captioning

All televisions manufactured or sold in the United States since the mid-90s are equipped with a Closed Captioning decoder system. This means any program picked up by the television can be shown with captioning, assuming the program signal is encoded with this information.

If you are faculty or a student requiring closed captioning in a classroom equipped with one of our televisions, please call Equipment Services and we will enable that option on the television.

Unfortunately the multimedia classrooms do not have this capability. Additional steps are being taken. Portable and fixed decoders have been purchased. Below is a list of our multimedia classrooms which have fixed closed captioning decoders.

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering S202
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering S212
Biological Sciences West 301
Center for English as a Second Language 102
Center for English as a Second Language 103
Chemistry 134
Economics 103
Economics 109
Education 211 (KIVA)
Education 240
Education 308
Education 331
Education 333
Education 337
Education 341
Education 349
Education 351
Education 353
Education 432
Education 502
Education 535
Harvill 313
Haury (Anthropology) 129
Haury (Anthropology) 216
Haury (Anthropology) 219
Modern Languages 202
Modern Languages 210
Modern Languages 303
Modern Languages 304
Modern Languages 310
Modern Languages 311
Modern Languages 314
Modern Languages 350
Modern Languages 411
McClelland 129
McClelland 133
McClelland 134
Physics and Atmospheric Sciences 201
Social Sciences 100
Speech and Hearing 409

In the mean time, if a student needs closed captioning please call Equipment Services and we will find a solution.

If you need further assistance please contact the Disability Resource Center 621-3268 (V/TTY)