DIT ELearning Summer School EAccess

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DIT E-Learning Summer SchoolE-Access

• Pat Hoey/Stuart Lawler
• 25th June 2003

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• Participation of Students with Disabilities
• The Disability Service
• E-Access Partnership Project
• E-Access - The Users
• E-Access - The User with Specific Learning
  Difficulty
• E-Access - The Blind and Vision Impaired User
• E-Access - Questions and Answers

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Number of Students with Disabilities

• Academic Year No.
• 1998/1999 68
• 1999/2000 94
• 2000/2001 133
• 2001/2002 175
• 2002/2003 220

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Breakdown of Students with Disability

• Specific Learning Difficulties
  63
• Deaf/Hearing Impaired 10
• Physical Disabilities 7
• Blind/Visual Impairment 6
• Psychological Difficulties 6
• Acquired Brain Injuries 3
• Diabetes 3
• Cystic Fibrosis 1
• M.E 1

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Breakdown of Students with Disabilities in
Faculties

• FACULTIES
• Built Environment 19
• Applied Arts 19
• Business 19
• Engineering 17
• Tourism and Food 9
• Science 5
• Trade Apprentices/CERT 12
• TOTAL
  100

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Breakdown of Students with Disabilities by
Student Type

• Student Type No
  
• Full Time Undergraduate 170
  77
• Trade Apprentices/ CERT 26 12
• Part Time 19 9
• Post Graduate 5 2
• Total 220 100

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SUPPORT

• The following is the range of support provision
  available to students with
• disabilities
• Notetaking
• Photocopying
• Sign Language Interpretation
• Speedtext
• Copies of Lecturers Notes
• Copies of Overheads
• Learning Support
• Additional Tuition
• Assistive Technology
• Scanning and Editing
• Transport
• Examination and Assessment Accommodations
• Fully Developed Disability Awareness Training
  Programme 2003/2004

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STAFFING

• The Disability Services Office is located at
• DIT Rathmines Road
• Rathmines
• Dublin 6
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email disability.services_at_dit.ie
• Pat Hoey
• Disability Liaison Officer Tel [phone]
• Olive OConnor
• Co-ordinator of Student Support Tel 01 402
  7656
• Clerical Officer
• Caroline Donoghue
• Assistive Technology Officer Tel [phone]

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• Partnership IT
• National Partnership Forum for Institutes of
  Technology
• ManagementUnionsStaff changeenhance the
  quality of work
• E-Access Project
• Established to produce guidelines for
  lecturers/web-based courses
• Project Team Sponsor - Dr Frank McMahon
• Project Team - LTT - Distance Education -
  Disability Service Staff Training and
  Development - Lecturing Staff

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E - Access - Users

• Blind Users and those with vision impairments
• Deaf Users and those with hearing impairments
• Users with Specific Learning Difficulties e.g.
  Dyslexia
• Users with Cognitive Difficulties
• Users with Physical/Mobility Disabilities
• Users with Epilepsy

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• E-Access - Users with Specific Learning
  Disabilities
• Content
• Use short simple sentences with clear
  instructions
• Use concise paragraphs with clear topic headings
• Be conscious where sentences begin on the page
• Give instructions clearly - avoid long sentences
  of explanation
• Use bullet points or numbering for lists
• Where appropriate use graphics that explain
  complex text
• Highlighting is a good way of drawing attention
  to the main points
• Adding colour will increase the chances of long
  term memory
• Title Paragraphs

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• E-Access - Users with Specific Learning
  Disabilities
• Learning Styles - used to explore a dyslexics
  skills
• Visual Learners - learning through seeing
• Auditory Learners - learning through hearing
• Kinaesthetic Learners - learning through doing
• Understand these styles
• A content page and index page at end of long
  documents
• Flow charts for explaining procedures
• Diagrams to help explain spatial procedures
• Pictograms and Graphics

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End of Presentation

• Thank you!