Awareness Issues
ANSWD is interested in how you are getting on at your institution. We would like to know what things you like about your University/TAFE, what you dislike and what you think can be done to improve things. We hope that many students will have the courage to come forward and share their life experiences in education with others so that we can learn from each other.The example below is a guide to what we would like to have on this page. It is your average student with a disability and all the things they have been provided with. The student has also listed some of the improvements they feel appropriate for someone in their position. You will note that the student is not identifiable as no institution is mentioned, and no staff are mentioned by name. ANSWD encourage this approach.
The idea behind this resource is to inform students with disabilities as well as service providers of the huge variation in services that exists throughout Australia and New Zealand. ANSWD was created with the aim of disseminating such information so that students are empowered to seek a better level of inclusiveness and service provision. We believe that this is the best way for this to happen.
These 'case studies' are in no way meant to represent a benchmark for levels of service to students with particular types of disabilities, and service providers are not encouraged to use them as such. It is simply designed to show students what is available to them and provide a 'real world' guide to what is happening out there. Contributions to this page are welcome; even if your disability is covered here, please submit your own experiences to the email address below. Everyone will be slightly different and such diversity is what ANSWD are trying to highlight here.
Send an email to convenor@answd.org
Case Studies
- Brain Injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Hearing Impaired
- Student Letter to Senator Vanstone, 2003
- Educational job profile
- Psychosocial disabilities
- 2008 Uni-Jobs lecturer of the year award winner
Visually impaired person's reflection paper
Student's perspective of a student with disabilities at tertiary educational institution
A new YouTube resource developed at UniSA. It gives a really nice overview of some of the issues and tips for students with disabilities at uni from a student’s perspective.
