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Academic Support for Disabled Students as an Example of Social Responsibility of University

Learn how the Disability Support Service at Jagiellonian University provides educational support for disabled students, candidates, and university staff, promoting inclusive education and equal opportunities.

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Academic Support for Disabled Students as an Example of Social Responsibility of University

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  1. Academic Support for Disabled Students as an Example of Social Responsibility of University Ireneusz Bialek Małgorzata Perdeus Dagmara Nowak-Adamczyk

  2. Jagiellonian University Founded in 1364

  3. Disability Support Service • academic center providing educational support for disabled students of the Jagiellonian University, candidates, university staff, people supporting the idea of inclusive education to the mainstream • mission: ensuring equal educational opportunities, equal rights, equal responsibilities

  4. Disability Support Service’s offert is focused on: • studentswithvisualimpairment • studentswithhearingimpairment • studentswithmobilityimpairment • studentswithmental health diffficulties • studentswithdyslexia, dysgraphia • studentswithotherdisabilities • universitycandidates • universityacademicstaff and administration Statistics 2010/2011: 44 813 allstudentsattheJagiellonianUniversity/667 disabledstudents

  5. Responsible university Academic model of students’ support • Support in a process of learning/teaching • Disability awareness student Disability Support Service academic staff

  6. The Constellation Leo: The educational support programme for Jagiellonian University students with mental health difficulties www.LeoProject.eu

  7. Why the project? • Significant increase in the number of students with mental health difficulties 10 x

  8. Statistics in detail: 2009/2010 • 28 % of students with depression • 23 % of students with schizophrenia • 12 % of students with drug addiction

  9. About the Project • Duration time: January 2010 – August 2011 • Participants: 40 Jagiellonian University students • Criteria: - motivation, - need of psychological support

  10. Prorities • to offer wide-ranging psychological support to students with mental health difficulties • to offer such students bespoke training programmes focusing on maximum use of their potential related to the educational process and their functioning in knowledge-based society • to open the website, facilitating a better understanding of problems faced by students with mental health difficulties and promoting solid knowledge on mental illnesses and their consequences, and • combating stereotypes related to mental health difficulties in the academic community.

  11. student with mental health difficulties academic community inclusion Actions: • First stage: psychological support • Second stage: personalized training programmes supporting a learning process • Parallel: educational platforme

  12. Results • inclusion of 40 students with mental health difficulties in a comprehensive programme of psychological support and personalised training programmes on social competences; • in justified cases, referring the students to high-quality specialists in psychiatry offering consultation; • launching a debate in the academic community on mental health difficulties and their consequences for the teaching process, and • equipping the broadly understood academic community with the ability to respond to problems and challenges related to the presence of persons with mental health dificulties at university.

  13. ‘My Journey’- reflections on mental health and university education „These are my two biggest dreams in life: to be healthy and to graduate from the university”. Ewa Kowalska, My Journey

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