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Disability

The Disability Archive UK

An archive of articles and papers about disability issues.

The aim of the Disability Archive UK is to provide disabled people, students and scholars with an interest in this and related fields, access to the writings of those disability activists, writers and allies whose work may no longer be easily accessible in the public domain. It is hoped that the documents available via the Archive will help to inform current and future debates on disability and related issues.

ABLEize.com

Disability directory of UK disabled and Health related sites offering advice products and health goods, services, social care and mobility aids.

Adders.org

This website's objective is to promote awareness to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and to provide information and practical help to sufferers, both adults and children, and their families in the UK and around the World.

Shift.org.uk

Shift is an initiative to tackle stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health issues in England. Their aim is to create a society where people who experience mental health problems enjoy the same rights and opportunities as other people. This website is no longer maintained.

OU Access Centre

This provides Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) needs assessments and technology training for open University students.

ECU Equality Challenge Unit

The Equality Challenge Unit works to promote equal opportunities in higher education. They work in partnership with universities and colleges of higher education, unions, and agencies across the country.

Action on Access

to promote knowledge and awareness of disability within the broader widening participation agenda and widening participation within disability thereby enhancing socially inclusive access to higher education.

Making your teaching inclusive

The website Making your teaching inclusive provides practical advice about teaching inclusively and will also help in meeting the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act. It will give you an insight into what study is like for disabled students, and what you can do to make a difference. Developed by the OU and funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England as part of a major programme for improving disability provision.

The website will help you learn about:

how you can enhance the learning experience of your student;
common barriers to learning and ways to find solutions;
types of learning support;
assistive technologies and specialist staff.

Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Has run a variety of conferences on themes of showcasing good practice to support disabled students in Higher Education - search their archive

Asynchronous and Synchronous E-Learning

Stefan Hrastinski. 2008 A study of asynchronous and synchronous e-learning methods discovered that each supports different purposes. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4 (October–December 2008).

National Network of Assessment Centres

The National Network of Assessment Centres is a UK-wide network of Centres providing quality assessment of need for the use of assistive technology and/or specialised learning strategies to facilitate access for disabled people to higher education (DSA).

DSA-QAG

this organisation exists to audit Access Centres and as such has the definitive list of approved Access Centres [not all are members of NNAC] - as well as a range of documents and minutes of its meetings to define some aspects of DSA operation.

DirectGov website information on finance for disabled students, especially the DSA

All you need to know on applying for finance as a disabled student is available from links on this page, including application forms for the DSA

Department for Business Innovation and Skills (DBIS)

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995

Disability Rights Commission

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education code of practice section 3: disabled students

QAA visit HE insitutions on a regular basis to check the quality of educational provision against their "code of practice" - section 3 sets out their expectations for inclusion of disabled students and is a useful set of standards.

Disabled Students and Multiple Policy Innovations in Higher Education

A Research Project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, carried out jointly by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.

This study is examining how multiple policy innovations in higher education are interacting with policies aimed at wider access for disabled students, assessing the impact of both sets of policies on the participation and experiences of disabled students. It compares developments in Scotland and England and in different types of institution, examining ways in which institutions have interpreted and implemented national policies.

LLU+ website

LLU+ is a national consultancy and professional development centre for staff working in the areas of literacy, numeracy, dyslexia, family learning and English for Speakers of Other Languages, with specialists in learning support, language and maths, and the application of learning styles approaches to teaching and learning. Within these fields the unit offers consultancy and advice, project development, trainer education, research and development and professional development networks. The unit also has an extensive list of publications and training videos developed through our work.

DEMOS Project - Online Materials for Staff Disability Awareness

This project ran from 200-2003 and was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England under strand three of the initiative Improving Provision for Students with Disabilities. The project developed an online learning package aimed specifically at academic staff and examined the issues faced by disabled students in higher education.

The following modules are available:

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Technical guides, e-learning, assistive technology...

10 Guidelines for making your documents Braille-ready

From Techno-Vision Systems Ltd: 10 very basic rules for making Word documents ready for Braille, Large Print, PDF and audio file formats such as DAISY etc. by using the styles, headings etc properly.

CLAUD

Librarians in Higher Education networking to improve access for disabled users. CLAUD's aims are to diseminates information on disability and to establish good practice.

EmpTech

EmpTech aims to provide information resources on assistive technologies that are designed to enhance access to study and work environments.

TechDis Accessibility Database

This site provides an on-line resource of information about products which are available to assist those with disabilities. The resource is designed to provide information on assistive, adaptive and enabling technologies to the United Kingdom Higher and Further education sectors.The database can be browsed and searched by product, company, disability and teaching & learning area. Includes articles on making documents accessible