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, 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 and adult seniors 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.

The lab is equipped with twelve workstations; each with the ability to support switches, trackballs, headphones, and integrated touch monitors.

To facilitate computer use beyond the walls of the lab, a laptop computer loaded with activities can travel to program rooms. The mobile lap top, with a digital projector and external speakers, uses a multi-media approach 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 Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. This program is designed to assist individuals with developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries when using the San Francisco Public Library's online resources to access electronic databases and information on public services.

To learn more about the Adaptive Computer Lab please contact: snalls@janetpomeroy.org or by phone (415) 665-4109 ext.1625

For enrollment/placement and general information about this and all our programs, please contact Jay Katz in our Social Services office: jkatz@janetpomeroy.org or by phone at (415) 665-4109 ext.1528.