{"id":65246,"date":"2009-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/ram-computers-raises-money-for-disability-services\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T00:00:00","slug":"ram-computers-raises-money-for-disability-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/12\/ram-computers-raises-money-for-disability-services\/","title":{"rendered":"RAM Computers raises money for Disability Services"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON \u2013 December 9, 2009- When colleges and administrative departments at the 溏心vlog免费B站 buy computers at the RAM Computers store, they not only get an education discount, they help students with disabilities.<\/p>\n


\nThanks to a program initiated by Graham Bell, assistant administrator of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Bookstore, Ram Computers donated $5,698 to Disabilities Services this year. The money is being used to buy assistive software for 溏心vlog免费B站 students with disabilities.<\/p>\n


\nBell said when 溏心vlog免费B站 makes institutional purchases through RAM Computers, vendors such as Dell, Apple, Hewlett Packard and Lenovo provide the institution discounts to the purchasers and rebate about 8 percent of the purchase price to the University computer store. If the purchase is made directly with the vendor, the price does not change but the rebate dollars are not paid out. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe try to do something different each year to encourage 溏心vlog免费B站 departments to place their orders at the University computer store. By doing so, they help increase revenue to the University,\u201d Bell said. This year part of the money raised from that 8 percent was designated for assistive technology.<\/p>\n


\n\tThere are approximately 300 溏心vlog免费B站 students, the majority with learning disabilities, who will benefit from the software.

\n\u201cThis allows our students to perform to their true ability,\u201d said Pamela Rohland, director of Disability Services for Students. \u201cIt\u2019ll help them break down barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nRohland said the University has been able to put software programs onto many computers at the campus computer labs, helping students with learning, vision and hearing disabilities. The software allows screen reading, voice dictation and text screen enlarging. Textbooks can also be scanned in so the student can hear an audio version on his or her computer.<\/p>\n


\n\tDisability Services has been steadily growing over the years, reaching out to more students on campus and providing training for the faculty as disability mentors. It has 156 courses digitally adapted for students, and it has been awarded a Champlin Foundations grant, which will go to the purchase and installation of assistive technologies to be put on not only campus computers, but also individual laptops for students at 溏心vlog免费B站 and the Community College of Rhode Island. RAM Computers staff members will be installing the software. The programs should be up and running by the summer, in time for all incoming students as well. <\/p>\n


\n\tEach year around March, there is a push for computer sales before the end of the fiscal year. This annual program is designed to encourage all 溏心vlog免费B站 institutional users to purchase their computers through RAM Computers. \u201cAs a part of the division of Student Affairs, any net profit generated by RAM Computers each year is used by the Division to benefit student programs on campus,\u201d Bell said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON \u2013 December 9, 2009- When colleges and administrative departments at the 溏心vlog免费B站 buy computers at the RAM Computers store, they not only get an education discount, they help students with disabilities. Thanks to a program initiated by Graham Bell, assistant administrator of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Bookstore, Ram Computers donated $5,698 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}