The disabled Students Bureau
You wish to benefit from accommodation during your studies or to be able to sit your exams? At UTC-Compiegne, the Disabled Students Bureau for is your privileged contact to help you at all stages.
Guide pratique de l'étudiant en situation de handicap
Missions
The missions assigned to the Disabled Students Bureau are:
- to welcome, advise and support students with disabilities and inform them of their rights;
- to implement procedures and take appropriate measures to optimise their autonomy, facilitate their integration and their access to knowledge;
- to organise and monitor the implementation of study and/or examination adjustments for which they are eligible;
- to coordinate all actions undertaken in respect to the issues of disability, particularly awareness-raising actions;
- to develop partnerships with external structures and institutions related to various disabilities;
- to support students in their search for internships/placements and their professional integration.
Studies and the handicapped students
In order to study under the best possible conditions, each student with a disability (motor, sensory, cognitive, psychological), disabling health problems (e.g., organic, or metabolic disorders), specific language and learning problems of the "dys" type, can benefit from personalised support and the implementation of teaching aids (human, organisational and technical) adapted to specific needs:
Study adjustments possible
Support can be human, organisational or technical*:
- help with note-taking during course lectures,
- tutoring among students,
- curriculum development,
- photocopy access card,
- provision of teaching materials or adapted means/equipment.
Examination adjustments
Depending on the situation, examination arrangements may be as follows*:
- Increased composition time (up to one-third exam allotted time),
- adaptation of examination subjects,
- examination secretariat help,
- exam composition on a laptop computer.
*non-exhaustive lists
Steps (to be) taken
At UTC-Compiegne, the disabied student advisor is your privileged interlocutor. This person will guide you through all the administrative procedures related to your request for exam adjustments and, if necessary, will propose technical or human solutions to meet your specific educational needs. He/she will accompany you during throughout your studies, until you get your first job.
All students of UTC-Compiegne can benefit from accommodation measures linked to a given handicap, whatever the course of studies followed, whether in initial or continuing education, whether you of French or another nationality, whether the handicap is recognized by the ‘departmental’ unit for handicapped persons or not.
It is very important that you arrange to contact the student disability advisor as soon as you are notified of admission to UTC-Compîegne or, at the latest, at the start of the academic year, if you wish to benefit from adjustments to your studies and/or examinations.
An attentive support team at the Disabled Students Bureau
The team of the Disabled Students Bureau is fully mobilised to meet the specific educational needs of students with various form of handicap:
- The Disabled Students advisor, Virginie Leviel, is in charge of welcoming and accompanying students with disabilities or those suffering from disabling health problems.
- The doctor of the Preventive Medicine service, Dr Alice Hoogendoorn, (qualified CDPAH), is in charge of studying the requests for exam adjustments;
- The Director of Student Training and Pedagogy, Étienne Arnoult, and the Head of Engineering Training, Antoine Jouglet, decide on the academic adjustments granted to students, on behalf of the Director of the institution. They both participate, upstream, in the reflection in terms of implementation of actions that allow for a better inclusion of UTC’s disabled students;.
- The Health and Safety Officer, Carolina Lacome, supervises the actions carried out by the Disabled Student Bureau.
The student disability relay team works in close collaboration with the various departments of the institution and academic teaching teams to provide quality cross-disciplinary support.
Testimony
Contact and documentation
Guide pratique de l'étudiant en situation de handicap