Services for students with disabilities:
People and social institutions pay great attention to people with special needs, not only from a humanitarian standpoint, on the basis that the human being is the supreme value in life. But also from an educational, cultural, social and educational point of view as well, since a person with special needs is what a person is – to some extent – he has been deprived of some capabilities, but he also – on the other side – has many other capabilities, perhaps if he had the opportunity He would have become one of the greatest scientists or discoverers and other major positions, and from this standpoint, Aswan University has taken upon itself the task of providing care and attention to people with special needs, facilitating, facilitating, and overcoming all obstacles that may face them during their educational career and harnessing all university capabilities to serve them.
* Aswan University offers many services and different forms of support at all levels available to people with disabilities:
– Aswan University has a special office that works to provide protection, care and social development for people with disabilities and to provide all forms of economic, health, educational and training support and to disburse financial aid and … etc. and it is called “Disability Support Office“.
– Aswan University formed the “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee” in order to promote equality, diversity and inclusion and provide effective support for people with disabilities and others.
– The Commission for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion has allocated a reasonable accommodation policy for persons with disabilities to enable them to fully participate in all aspects of university life and obligated us as a university to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities to ensure equal access to educational programmes, services and facilities.
* Campus solutions for accessibility for people with disabilities:
- Campus access facilities:
Aswan University provides all means of accessibility to the campus and educational buildings… and others for students with disabilities, and the forms of these facilities include:
１- Allocating facilities for each student with special needs to facilitate the process of movement within the university
２- Allocate special passages and gates for people with special needs to ensure safety and security and preserve their lives
３- Make special elevators for students with special needs
The presence of a ram on the ground floors to facilitate the movement of wheelchairs
* Some pictures of campus accessibility for students with special needs:
Access plans for people with disabilities:
Aswan University provides accessibility schemes for people with disabilities with many different forms of support:
１- Mentoring support
Aswan University provides some training courses and counseling sessions for people with disabilities:
– The Social Solidarity Unit at Aswan University launched an initiative calling for equal integration, which is the “People Like Us” initiative to integrate and support students with disabilities in the university community.
– The General Administration of Student Welfare provides various types of psychological, social and recreational support to students with special needs by identifying their needs and requests and the material problems they face during the study in addition to integrating them and
-Involve them in the various student activities that are carried out inside and outside the university according to the type of disability, in addition to their representation of the university in the specialized university summits that are implemented in other universities, and those students obtain advanced positions in some sports and cultural competitions, and this is due to the continuous follow-up and effective communication between the employees of the administration And students with special needs. Here are some examples of participation:
1-The sports meeting for students with special needs in Alexandria
2-Involving students at the Leadership Development Institute in Helwan in meeting people of determination from Egyptian universities
3-Involving students at the Leadership Development Institute in Helwan in meeting distinguished students
２- Financial support and financial aid:
Aswan University provides financial support to students and employees with disabilities, by providing them with financial aid. In addition to helping them with housing expenses and all forms of financial assistance available for cases that need support.
– Exemption from the expenses of textbooks
-The university provides full financial support to students with disabilities through the “Social Solidarity” program”.
– Aswan University provides an “integrated services card for people with disabilities” through the “Social Solidarity Unit” at the university affiliated to the Ministry of Social Solidarity. These cards give their holders (students – employees) many advantages, the most important of which are free hospital examinations, obtaining government housing, customs exemption on prosthetic devices, exemption from customs duties on a handicapped car, tax exemption and many others. Other advantages.
３- Study facilities and the educational process:
The university provides academic services to facilitate the educational process for people with disabilities. Examples of these services are:
Providing sign language interpreters for students with hearing disabilities at the Faculty of Specific Education.
– Aswan University has established a laboratory for the blind at the Faculty of Arts, where the work provides some services to blind students, namely:
１- Providing ten devices and a Braille printer
２- Printing the curriculum for students in Braille
３- Providing talking computers and providing audio and recorded books
４- Providing assistance in the required research and guiding them during the study process
５- Assisting new students in coordination and submission
６- Enabling the student to use a computer or laptop, which suits his needs, and to run screen reader programs, whether on the phone or the device of the blind student.
-Transferring the university to some online lectures for students with special needs
– Facilitating the organization of examination committees on the ground floor and identifying special committees when necessary
-The university provides exam facilities for visually impaired students by printing question papers on (A3) paper.
-Facilitating exams for students with visual impairments by holding special committees and having facilities for reading and writing
– Full supervision of the medical administration for students with special needs
– The General Administration of Education and Student Affairs, in partnership with the General Administration of Medical Affairs at the university, in cooperation with the Department of Recruitment, initiated a medical examination for male students with special needs enrolled in Aswan University and other colleges and institutes in Aswan Governorate to give them certificates of exemption from conscription. For details click here
Aswan University provides affordable housing for students in terms of care (social, health, scientific, cultural and sports) for university students. In addition, the residences provide an integrated university life for students through:
– Supporting Aswan University dormitories for special services for students with special needs, as (4) students with special needs in the category (with short stature) were accommodated. Among these services:
– Facilitating the process of housing in places near the Faculties
– Their residence in the ground floors and near educational buildings
Involve them in all student activities
– The presence of a ram on the ground floor to facilitate the movement of wheelchairs
– The presence of electric elevators in residential buildings
４- Other forms of support:
Aswan University, through the Social Solidarity Unit, provides special services for people with disabilities (students – workers – faculty members) through:
-Provision of compensatory devices.
-Applying for an integrated services card.
– Making a number of approximately 100 inquiries, submission and re-issuance of integrated services cards.
– The unit assisted some students with hearing disabilities in applying to colleges.
– The unit also contributed to providing sign language interpreters for students with hearing disabilities at the Faculty of Specific Education.
-Paying tuition fees for those who are unable.
– Providing 17 stethoscopes for students with hearing impairments.
– Providing 17 laptops for blind students and researchers.
