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What is the PASS program?

Project Academic Skills Support (PASS) was established in 1987 at Ocean County College in order to provide support services to students with learning disabilities. PASS is funded by the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education Special Needs Grant and Ocean County College. It is one of New Jersey's eight regional centers currently providing support services for students with disabilities.

What kind of services can the PASS program provide?

Academic accommodations, professional tutoring, peer mentoring, advising, orientation adaptive technology are among the many services that are offered through the PASS program. As a regional center for students with learning disabilities, PASS also provides training, assistance, and community awareness activities for faculty and staff at other post secondary institutions, and PASS Staff participate in transition programs at area high schools.

What is considered a learning disabilitiy?

A specific learning disability has been defined as a disorder in one or more of the basic processes involved in the understanding or use of spoken or written language. The disorder results in problems of listening, thinking, reading, spelling or arithmetic. For information regarding what kind of documentation needed to show that you have a learning disability, please review: What kind of documentation do I need to submit?

Checklist for Applying to PASS

1. Send in the Ocean County College application as early as possible before the start of the semester you wish to attend.
2. Contact DS at 732.255.0456 to submit your documentation of a disability. You may also fax this information to our secure line: 732.864.3860.
   • What kind of documentation do I need to submit?
   • Guidelines for a Physical Disability
   • Guidlines for Psychiatric/Psychological Disability
     
3. Once your documentation is received, the Disability Counselor will contact you for an intake appointment.
   
4. At the time of your appointment, please bring your intake form.
   
5. Make arrangements to take the Accuplacer Test with the appropriate academic adjustments if necessary. Call 732.255.0401 to make an appointment. This test should be taken as early as possible before the start of the semester you wish to attend.

Deadline

Students starting OCC in the Fall semester should complete their intake session and Accuplacer testing by June 30. Space in PASS cannot be guaranteed past July 15.

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