LRC services for people with disabilities

WAI Learning Resource Centre aims to provide service which ensures equal access and educational opportunities for students with disabilities. To be eligible for the service, you need to register with the Disability Liaison Officer. Once this happens, you can make a booking with the LRC disability liaison coordinator.

LRC staff will assist you with:

• Checking the library catalogue
• Searching databases, electronic journals or web browsing
• Retrieving items from the shelves
• Making photocopies, printing documents, use of scanner
• Borrowing, reserving LRC items

Assistive Technology Software:

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Getting to LRC (Building C, ground floor) and other facilities:

• Wheelchair access is available to LRC & most areas of the Institute (see map for access routes)
• Car park spaces –  car parking is available on Little Lonsdale Street.
• Toilets – 1 opposite LRC entrance, ground floor, Building C. See map for other accessible toilets in campus.
• Lifts – lift for the disabled in Angliss Restaurant, lower floor, Building E
• Hearing aid loop – Lecture theatre (EG 17) in Building E & Auditorium (A 524), Conference centre in Building A
• Click here to see the campus map

Contacts:

• Disability Support at William Angliss Institute

Carol Maurici
Call:  9606 2232
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Visit:  Building C Level 2 Room C204

• LRC disability support

Paul Kloppenborg
Call: 9606 2235 
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• Click here for more information on eligibility and other services (you have to log on to MyWAI to access the information)
  

WAI Institute Useful Links:

William Angliss Institute Disability Fact Sheets

More links to Useful Web Sites:

• Australian Disability Clearninghouse on Education and Training (ADCET)
• Amaze  
• Disability services division, Department of human services, State government of Victoria, Australia
• Scope: non-profit organisation for people with a disability
• Vision Australia: non-profit organisation for blindness and low vision services
• Centre of Excellence for Students who are deaf and Hard of Hearing Vicdeaf
• ReachOut: a website with information about mental health
• Disability Standards for Education 2005