Disability Awareness

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• Disability Awareness
• A New Challenge for Higher Education raising
  disability awareness among academic teachers

Dagmara Nowak Adamczyk Disability Support
Service
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DARE Project Disability Awareness a New
Challenge for Employees 2007-2009 Project
implemented as part of the Lifelong Learning
Transfer of Innovation - initiative of the
Leonardo da Vinci Programme
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Partnership

• Jagiellonian University
• Università degli Studi di Padova
• Learning Differences, United Kingdom
• Euroinform Ltd., Bulgaria
• Federacion de Asociaciones de Minusválidos
  Físicos de Córdoba (FEPAMIC), Spain

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Projects aims

• Main aim
• to enhance the qualifications of academic
  teachers and administration staff in the field of
  disability and disabled peoples participation in
  the society based on disability knowledge

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• Detailed aims
• providing the target groups with reliable
  knowledge concerning disability, its types, its
  physiological and psychological consequences,
• eliminating the barriers faced by disabled people
  in their daily lives and ways to achieve that,
• developing in the target groups an active
  attitude supporting disabled persons based on
  reliable knowledge acquired in the training,

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• equipping the target groups with the skills of
  making correct and effective contact with
  disabled people,
• eliminating negative attitudes related to
  disability, stereotypes and withdrawal
  attitudes,
• improving the image of disabled people as
  students, applicants and work colleagues.

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Academic teachers -learning outcomes

• enhancing qualifications concerning knowledge
  about different barriers in a social life of
  disabled people,
• decreasing of social stereotypes and prejudices
  about disabled people,
• decreasing of fear in a contact with disabled
  people,

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• gaining knowledge about disability language
  taking into consideration a change of thinking
  about disability,
• changing of a way of thinking about disabled
  people not as objects of charity, but as
  subjects of a social life.

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Outcomes of the project

• Training courses for academic teachers and
  administrative staff
• Web site

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Training coursefor academic teachers
manual for teachers trainers
training materials for teachers
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Structure of the training
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Disability teaching strategies

• Visual impairment
• Hearing impairment
• Mobility impairment
• Mental health difficulties
• Dyslexia

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Methods materials

• Interactive and multimedia
• educational films
• Power Point presentations
• exercises (simulation games)
• mind shower
• case study
• disscusion

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Web site

• Master version English
• Translation to Polish, Bulgarian, Italian and
  Spanish
• Access to
• general information about the project, some
  information about products
• presentation of the products (multimedia
  materials in a form of a very simple e-learning
  platform).

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Academic teachers evaluation of the training
course

• It was very effective with pleasant atmosphere.
  I am sure that knowledge that I gained during
  it is to use in contact with students.
• It is neccessary to continue training course,
  because academic teachers are not aware of
  disabled persons requirements.

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Final conference

• Disability Awareness A New Challenge for
  Education
• 22 23 October
• Jagiellonian University in Krakow
• Collegium Novum university building, Main
  Auditorium
• www.konferencja.DareProject.eu

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• Jagiellonian University
• Disability Support Service
• 1/210, Retoryka Street
• 31-108 Krakow, Poland
• tel. [phone]
• bon_at_uj.edu.pl
• www.bon.uj.edu.pl