Challenge The System- successful studying and employing in Slovenia
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Miha Kosi, Natasa Mauko The Slovenian Association of Disabled Students
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Challenge The System- successful studying and employing in Slovenia. Miha Kosi, Natasa Mauko The Slovenian Association of Disabled Students. Studying condition s for students with special needs in Slovenia in the past and today. In the past : Lack of legislation No institutional support - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Miha Kosi, Natasa Mauko
The Slovenian Association of Disabled Students
In the past:
Lack of legislationNo institutional supportMany barriers in built environmentNo technical supportSmall number of students with special needs
Today:
Accepted legal basis for supporting student with special needsFaculties provide various support and adjustments for disabled studentsBuildings are more accessibleDifferent ICT support is availableIncreasing number of students with different types of disabilities
Beginnings with small stepsFrom student club to Association with legal status of disability organisation
Providing many services and supportImplementing leisure activitiesTrying to improve employability of students with special needs
Partially sighted studentShe studied in University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of Arts, study programme History and Pedagogy
Adjustments: extended exam time, oral instead writing exams, extra exam dates
Before the possibility of obtaining the status of students with special needs she had to arrange everything individual with each professor
Not enough empathy and understanding from some professors
Most of exams at the end of studying year
Worked as volunteer in Association of blind in Ljubljana
Tutoring for pupils in primary schoolInvolved in programmes for adult educationCoordinator the project Equal opportunities for blind students
EVS volunteer in Belfast, Northern Ireland, RNBI Institute
After graduation she worked in primary school for 10 months
Special work experience for unemployed people at association DLAN
REGULAR EMPLOYMENT: Union of blind and partially sighted of Slovenia
The Slovenian Association of Disabled Students
Kardeljeva ploscad 5, [email protected]
www.dsis-drustvo.si
