Intellectual Disabilities

Intellectual Disabilities (ID) Program & Services

The Intellectual Disabilities program provides specialized classes tailored for students with lower cognitive skills, specifically those with below-average intellectual functioning who have the potential for measurable progress in a structured learning environment. This program offers non-credit, free classes designed to support students with mile to moderate intellectual disabilities.

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• Types of Classes Offered

  Coastline is committed to fostering growth toward greater independence and empowering individuals with disabilities to live and work within their own communities. With a strong dedication to education, Coastline offers a diverse range of courses tailored to learners with intellectual disabilities, covering areas such as:

  
  Academic Growth:
  Critical Thinking, Math Concepts, Reading/ Writing

  Community Awareness:
  Consumer Skills

  Enrichment:
  Music, Art, and Customs, Cultures and Holidays, Photography, Ceramics

  Fitness:
  Adult Fitness, Rhythmic Movement, Yoga, Adapted Physical Education

  Independent Living:
  Applied Academics, Food Preparation, Health Concepts

  Social Skills:
  Personal and Social Adjustment, Communication

• Who Is eligible?
  Coastline Community College is committed to providing an education to qualified students with disabilities. Eligibility for state funding to provide such services, however, requires that the college obtain professional certification of each student's disability. If the student received services specific to their disability from their high school, the Regional Center of Orange County or the California Department of Rehabilitation, these agencies may be able to provide sufficient information to verify the disability. A doctor, psychiatrist or psychologist may also be able to provide enough information to verify the disability. If a student would like Coastline to obtain educational and/or evaluation records from one or more of these agencies, the student would complete a separate Records Release form for each agency.
• Locations

  The Special Programs and Services for Students with Disabilities Department is located at the Newport Beach Campus - at 1515 Monrovia Ave, Newport Beach, CA 92663 - and offers a variety of non-credit classes for the community-based student. The campus in Newport Beach is spacious and all classes are easily accessible. If you have any further questions about classes or registration, please call (714) 241-6214, and ask to speak with Lori Genova.

ID Program Student Showcase

Road Trip Across the U.S.A.

Coastline Special Programs and Services presented the Spring 2025 Student Showcase on May 9^th, featuring performances and art gallery presentations.

View photos of past performances.

View photos from the Art Gallery.

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Special Programs & Services

Coastline's Special Programs & Services include Mainstream Support, Acquired Brain Injury, Intellectual Disabilities, Career Options through Academic Support and Training, and Adaptive Fitness.

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Program

One-year educational program designed to provide structured cognitive retraining for adults who have sustained a brain injury due to traumatic or non-traumatic injuries.

Coastline Art Gallery

The Art Gallery holds workshops, exhibition programs as well as receptions, artist lectures and other art-related events.