The Adaptive Computer Lab was started in 1995 with seed money from the Bay Area Knights of Columbus Foundation. The lab promotes literacy and lifetime learning, reinforces educational goals, promotes initiative, reinforces vocational and life skills training, promotes self confidence and self worth, improves decision making skills, increases concentration, and supports fine and gross motor abilities and eye hand coordination.

Students in our Children/Teen Department extend their learning day in the computer lab by reinforcing their studies with computer activities for reading, spelling, science, mathematics, and critical thinking. Adults work on programs that are designed to stimulate complex brain connections through reading, phonics, spelling, keyboarding, leisure games, and memory stimulation. For many of our adults and seniors, the computer lab has provided their first exposure to the computer world.

To facilitate computer use beyond the walls of the lab, a laptop computer loaded with activities travels to program rooms. The Mobile computer Lap Program with its multi-media approach is designed to stimulate participants at all functioning levels by projecting activity sound throughout the room and images on the wall.

An additional component, Access to Information for People with Disabilities (ATIP), was started in 2002 through the collaborative effort of the Janet Pomeroy Center, the Knights of Columbus, and the San Francisco Public Library. This program is designed to teach individuals with developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries to use the library's online resources to access electronic databases and information on public services.