Information for staff

DAWN HANDBOOK ON Teaching Students with Disabilities:
guidelines for academic staff

The Handbook below is intended to act as a resource for third level academic staff wishing to develop their awareness of disability issues and to improve practice in relation to students with disabilities. The broad aims of the guide are to focus academic staff on the individual student rather than on the disability, to develop an understanding of appropriate methods of communication and to create awareness of the need to be proactive in developing a curriculum which is accessible to all students. This Handbook is downloadable by clicking on the following link:

http://www.nuigalway.ie/disability/documents/dawn_guidelines_for_academic_staff.doc 

General guidelines

Specific Learning Difficulties

Blind/Visual Impaired

Deaf/Hearing Impaired

Significant Ongoing illness

Mental Health Difficulties

Mobility/Physical Disabilities

Asperger's Syndrome

Speech Impediments

For further information please refer to the NUI Galway Teaching and Learning Forum on https://nuigalway.blackboard.com/ where you will find the disability awareness module: ’Teaching Students with Disabilities’ under the menu item ’Students with Disabilities’.

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