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May 4th 2011
Supporting Disabled
Students
Assistant DirectorDisability Office
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Disabled students
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Disabled students by College 2010/11
Humanities and Social
Science
Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Science and Engineering
Autistic Disorder 16 3 15
Specific Learning Difficulty 626 148 346
Blind / Partial Sight 40 3 14
Deaf / Partial Hearing 30 12 11
Wheelchair / Mobility 49 4 17
Personal Care Support 2 0 0
Mental Health 121 18 35
Unseen Disability 278 57 101
Multiple Disabilities 46 5 19
Other Disability 118 26 57
Total Disabled Students 1,326 276 615
No Disability 17,388 4,197 8,278
Total Students 18,714 4,473 8,893
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Disability Office
2 Advisory teams – Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) and Disability
Advisors plus Student Support Assistants
SSAs include Study Skills Tutors, Mental Health Mentors, Note takers, Library Assistants, Proofreaders
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What the Disability Office does
Pre-application visits Liaise over building adaptations Assess individual evidence and
requirements and create Learning Profiles
Advise on technology and equipment
Loan equipment Assist students to claim funding
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What the Disability Office does
Source and match personal assistants
Dyslexia screening, referral for Ed Psych assessment, tutoring
Advise University on disability policy issues
Staff development/ training
Liaison with Schools
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What the University does
Disability Policy Disability
Committee and 5 sub-groups
Disability Equality Scheme (soon to be a Single Equality Scheme)
Equality and Diversity functions
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Equality Act 2010
Passed in April 2010 Effective from 1 October
2010 Now covers 9 “protected
characteristics” (equality strands)
Brings together existing legislation on disability (Disability Discrimination Act), race and gender
Harmonises and strengthens previous discrimination legislation.
Equality Act 2010
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Equality Act 2010
Definition of Disability
A physical or mental impairment that has a
Substantial and long-term adverse effect on the
ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
“substantial” = more than minor or trivial “impairment” = long term medical
conditions
and fluctuating or progressive conditions.
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Equality Act 2010
New protections include:
discrimination by association or perception
discrimination arising out of disability - replaces the DDA's "disability related discrimination“.
indirect discrimination.
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Equality Act 2010
Draft Code of Practice: Further and Higher Education (consultation ended December 2010)
The Equality Act retains the objective justification test that a measure must be a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”
However, it is not discrimination to treat a disabled person more favourably than a person who is not disabled
The Public Sector Duty replaces the Disability Equality Duty from April 2011.
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Liaison with Schools/Colleges
DO recent initiative = Key contact or contacts from DO allocated to
each School Liaison is about processes, procedures,
issues – not individual student adjustments Liaison – Vet School - Dr Geoff Pearson and
Lorna Hume; Disability Office - Melanie Scott, Jan Gardiner and Sheila Williams
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Key areas for discussion:
Adjustments
Competence standards
Fitness to practice/Fitness to study (in relation to disability) - (Claire Phillips – has drafted a document relating to Students studying veterinary medicine with a disability for admissions webpage)
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For Further Information
6-8 South College St
From 1st August 2011:
3rd Floor, Main Library
Tel: 650 6828
Visit our website:
www.ed.ac.uk/disability-office