Disability Advisory Service3 Worcester Street

Oxford01865 280459

disability@admin.ox.ac.uk

Anwen JonesSpLD Specialist

Who are our disabled students?

Hidden or ObviousDeclared or not

Anticipatory duty .... Regardless of declaredDid we take reasonable steps to identify...

Students enrolled during 2012/13 academic year with disclosed disability approx 1500

No. of disabled students

% of all disabled students

A disability, impairment or medical condition not listed 105 6.9%

A long standing illness or health condition 174 11.4%

A mental health condition 188 12.3%

A physical impairment or mobility issues 78 5.1%

A social/communication impairment 48 3.1%

A specific learning difficulty 723 47.3%

Blind or a serious visual impairment 39 2.5%

Deaf or a serious hearing impairment 34 2.2%

Two or more impairments and/or medical conditions 141 9.2%

What to do to help?Talk to the student .... they are often the expert

Understand the general nature of disabilities

Be observant ... Many disabilities hidden

Specific Learning Difficulties

Words .... Words ..... wordscontumaciouswharfingeromniscience

Bough / bow Chews / choose

Simple and common words wrong .....with / was / who / had / the

sign / singblack / bleak

Words ... Words ... wordsThis paper reviews recent advances in emission of terahertz radiation from

two-dimensional (2D) electron systems in semiconductor nano-heterostructures. 2D plasmon resonance is first presented to demonstrate intense broadband terahertz emission from InGaP/InGaAs/GaAs and InAlAs/InGaAs/InP material systems. The device structure is based on a high-electron mobility transistor and incorporates the author’s original interdigitated dual-grating gates. Second topic focuses on graphene, a monolayer carbon-atomic honeycomb lattice crystal, exhibiting unique carrier transport and optical properties owing to massless and gapless energy spectrum. Coherent stimulated terahertz emission from femtosecond infrared-laser pumped epitaxial graphene is experimentally observed, reflecting the occurrence of negative dynamic conductivity and population inversion.

Challenges: the impact

Reading MountainWriting FrustrationSpeed of Response

Lecture, debatePresentationOrganisation

Challenges: the impactSlow and effortfulAccess and retrieval

difficultError proneCosts of compensation

WorkloadSleepStress and anxietyExtra-curricular

experience

What you might see???The public-private law debate as to whether it is

appropriate and desirable to hold public authorities up to different standards as opposed private entities is exemplified when examining the law of tort because quite often it will be seen that a separate standard exists in the courtroom when the judges are considering the tortious liability of the public authority.

Compensatory Strengths?

Always individual – regardless of the label

Other Hidden DisabilitiesMental Health DifficultiesChronic Fatigue SyndromeAsperger Syndrome

Support and Reasonable AdjustmentsAim is to remove barriers caused by specific

difficulties not reduce quality or intellectual effort as required from all students

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