Evolution of Service Provision – Dealing with Changes in Supporting Students with Disabilities in Higher Education

Description

In a perfect world, supporting students with disabilities in Higher Education enables individuals with a disability and / or chronic illness that fulfil the formal prerequisites to enter tertiary education and, by facilitating to follow an educational path corresponding to their personal skills and competences, it opens up career paths and job opportunities different from “traditional” jobs for people with disabilities and finally fosters social integration. In real life, the proportion of people with disabilities in Higher Education is far smaller than the number of individuals leaving secondary education and this group is further diminishing during their time in Higher Education until successfully entering the first labour market at a position corresponding to personal abilities, knowledge, skills and competences. Many issues are to be sorted out before, during and after Higher Education – issues resulting from specific needs that might arise from a disability or chronic illness, issues connected to a specific study scheme, issues connected to Assistive Technologies (AT) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in use… but first and foremost issues that should be part of a most flexible, interactive and reliable support framework in order to create possibilities and facilitate pathways that are, at least to some extent, similar to a “perfect world”- scheme.

Period	13 Jul 2012
Event title	ICCHP 2012
Event type	Conference
Location	Linz, AustriaShow on map