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Tue 2 Apr 2024
10:00 - 11:00

Venue: Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building, Teaching Room

Provided by: Engineering Centre for Languages & Inter-Communication


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EDI series on Disability in Higher Education: Toward a Better Understanding of Sensory and Learning Impairments
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Tue 2 Apr 2024

Description

This EDI series supports the University’s EDI strategy concerned with promoting disability awareness and supportive and humanised workplace. The series encourages thinking differently about disabled colleagues or students, to get ‘a feel for the situation’ from their perspective, and to become inspired to help them achieve their professional goals. This series is being delivered by Dr Zrinka Mendas.

Other workshops in this series are:

  1. Toward a Better Understanding of Sensory and Learning Impairments (April)
  2. Empathy and Disability: Friends or Foes? (May)
  3. Embracing Neurodiversity: Strength or Weakness? (June)
  4. Sign language as a Useful Communication Tool (July)
  5. Advancing Teaching and Learning Practices for disabled staff and students (August)

This is an interactive workshop and you will be expected to contribute to the session.

Target audience
  • Staff and students from the School of Technology
  • Further details regarding CLIC's eligibility criteria are available here
Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Tue 2 Apr   10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 11:00 Department of Engineering, James Dyson Building, Teaching Room map Zrinka Mendas
Objectives

The participants shall:

  • learn more about a number of sensory or learning impairments
  • share their knowledge about current working practices
  • discuss strategies for improvements
Format

Interactive workshop

Duration

1 hour

Related courses
Theme
CLIC: British Sign Language

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