for student advisers and educational professionals
Personal circumstances such as functional impairment or illness, mental complaints, pregnancy/parenthood, combining studies with top-level sport, gender transition, informal care or special family circumstances, can lead to study obstacles.
This website provides information and tools to support education and guidance for students with additional support needs due to personal circumstances.
The invisibles and their diversity
Video on neurodiversity in higher education
UT internal education support service
External educational support organisations
- Expertise Centre for Inclusive Education (ECIO)
ECIO supports HE institutions in making education accessible to students with support needs. ECIO organizes events and training to promote the expertise of professionals. Including:- Digital accessibility
- Accessibility - Solutions for assessment, digitalisation and infrastructure
- Information card for support in dyslexia, dyscalculia, AD(H)D and Autism.
- ECIO publications
Inclusive education
- Universal design for learning (UDL), is a mindset (diversity is the norm) that provides a practical framework for improving and optimizing education that gives all students equal opportunities to learn.
- UDLL
(Universal Design for Learning – License to Learn) - Best practice guideline for UDL in higher education (pdf 3.73 MB) - AHEAD
- inclusive environments in education - ECIO
Teacher's Guide with tips
: How to contribute to inclusive and accessible education. - Autism & Uni - best practice guides
- The IMAGE project
- Improving Employability of Autistic Graduates in Europe
Employability Toolkit; training materials for career counsellors, and good practice guides for professionals and empoyers.
Suicide prevention
Additional information
Also relevant for student counsellors and education professionals seeking support for students with support needs:
- 'Studying with Personal circumstances' and its subpages, informs students about the facilities and support offered by UT.
- Guide personal circumstances & studies, practical information and tips for students with specific support needs.