Inclusive Education
Learning conditions for persons with disabilities and special needs at AltSU
Altai State University, within the framework of inclusive education, provides the following learning conditions for persons with disabilities.
1. Local regulations
In 2015, Altai State University adopted the decision of the Academic Council (Minutes No. 10 dated 02.07.2015) and Order of the Rector (No. 996/p dated 09.07.2015) "Regulations on the procedure for organizing and implementing educational activities on educational programs for persons with disabilities at Altai State University", the decision of the Academic Council (Minutes No. 10 dated 02.07.2015) and Rector's Order (No. 995/p dated 07.09.2015) "Regulations on the Center for Inclusive Education at Altai State University."
In 2016, by Order of the Rector (No. 195/p dated February 19, 2016), a commission was established to conduct a survey and certification of facilities and services provided, based on the results of the audit, passports of accessibility for persons with disabilities to the university's academic buildings were compiled. By Order of the Rector (No. 589/p dated April 25, 2016), a Comprehensive program (“road map”) was adopted to increase accessibility indicators for persons with disabilities and special needs at AltSU for 2016–2020.”
2. Organizational and methodological work
In order to coordinate the creation of special conditions for ensuring inclusive education of students with disabilities and special needs at the university, within the structure of the Educational and Methodological Department, the Center for Inclusive Education was created: building "M", pr. Lenina 61 / ul. Molodezhnaya, 13, room 206b, tel.; (3852) 296-578.
In order to enjoy the right to education, persons with disabilities must submit to the educational institution the conclusion of the federal institution of medical and social expertise that they are not contraindicated in studying in the relevant educational organizations. AltSU creates opportunities and provides training for persons with:
• hearing impairments – deaf, hard-of-hearing, late-deafened;
• visual impairments – blind, visually impaired and late-onset blind, with strabismus and amblyopia;
• speech disorders - general underdevelopment of speech of various etiologies, underdevelopment of the phonetic and phonemic side of speech, stuttering and other speech disorders;
• muscle-skeleton disorder;
• complex disorders, including deaf-blindness;
• disorders of the emotional-volitional sphere and behavior;
• somatic diseases;
• other developmental delays.
AltSU provides for the following organizational forms of education:
• Education on a common basis with students without deviations in health status, full inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education environment without changes in the organization of the education system, that is, in programs, methods, and training schedules.
• Training in special educational programs exclusively for persons with disabilities is associated with the development and implementation of individual curricula and adapted educational programs.
• Distance learning involves educational technologies implemented mainly with the use of information and telecommunication networks with indirect (at a distance) interaction between students with disabilities and teachers.
An alternative version of the website for visually impaired persons has been created and the conditions for teaching persons with disabilities at AltSU have been posted. Access at: https://www.asu.ru/en/news/events/50031/.
In 2016, a cooperation agreement was signed between the university and the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (the provision of hearing-impaired people, if necessary, services using Russian sign language, including providing access to the facility for a sign language interpreter, a typhl interpreter in the regional branch in Barnaul and in branches in the cities of Rubtsovsk, Slavgorod, Biysk, and Kamen-na-Obi).
In 2015–2016 the Center for Inclusive Education of the Educational and Methodological Department and the Regional Center for Retraining and Advanced Training of Teachers of Higher and Secondary Specialized Educational Institutions (CPPKP) has developed and is implementing a professional development program for the teaching staff “Inclusion in Higher Education”.
The Department of Informatization has a sector for ensuring the development of information and distance technologies in the education process. The Laboratory of Distance Education deals with creating distance learning courses for the development of distance education at AltSU. The Laboratory staff help course authors record video lectures using professional equipment, create flash videos, professional presentations, and place educational materials in electronic form in the learning management system Moodle.
For students with disabilities or special needs, AltSU has established a special procedure for mastering the discipline "physical culture" based on the principles of health saving and active physical culture - adaptive physical education classes in specially equipped sports, gyms or outdoors, which are conducted by teachers with appropriate training.
Psychological, pedagogical and social support includes monitoring the schedule of the educational process and the implementation of certification activities, organizing individual consultations, developing individual curricula and individual training schedules, providing educational and methodological materials, and providing psychological support. Social support is provided through the allocation of material assistance to the students with disabilities, scholarships, as well as their involvement in student self-government.
3. Accessible environment
For the safety of students and employees of the university, sound and light emergency warning and alarm systems have been created.
All university staff were instructed on the basic forms and methods of working with people with disabilities or with disabilities.
AltSU has a tutor service, if necessary, providing support for all categories of persons with disabilities or special needs.
At all faculties, if possible, classrooms are designated, located and adapted as comfortably as possible for different categories of persons with disabilities (ground or first floor, wide doorways, low thresholds, multimedia equipment, room numbers dubbed in Braille). In the classroom (in lecture halls, classrooms for practical classes, training workshops, a library, etc.), if necessary, 1-2 places are allocated for students with a specific type of health impairment - vision, hearing, or muscule-skeleton system. In a standard classroom, it is necessary to provide the first desks in a row by the window and in the middle row for students with hearing and visual impairments.
For persons with muscle-skeleton disorders:
• the adjacent territory of AltSU has been adapted, parking spaces have been allocated; entrance ways to the main building "M" are available. In other educational buildings there are buttons for calling help to enter the building.
• a service of tutors operates in the buildings, who accompany to the necessary premises along the entire route of the disabled person; in the main building "M" non-threshold elevators are installed; There is an adapted sanitary and hygienic room.
• a training place for such a nosology implies an increase in the size of the zone by one place, taking into account the entrance and turning of the wheelchair, increasing the width of the passage between the tables, for students in a wheelchair, 1–2 tables are allocated in a row at the doorway.
For persons with visual impairment:
• tactile mnemonic diagrams are installed in the educational buildings on the ground floors for possible independent orientation in space. In the main building "M" elevators have audio voice acting for floor numbers.
• key offices, dean's offices of educational subdivisions are duplicated by number tables in Braille.
• in the Scientific Library of Altai State University there is a service point for visually impaired and blind students, cooperating with the Altai Regional Special Library, where you can order specialized literature: “talking” books on cassettes, disks, flash cards, flat-printed books with enlarged type. The reading room has equipment for listening to audio books. Books for ordering can be found in the electronic catalog on the website of the Altai Regional Special Library for the blind and visually impaired (http://bibl22.ru/): bldg. "L", pr. Lenina 61, room. 323. Tel.: 667-531; e-mail: mba@lib.asu.
• in classrooms, if necessary, places are allocated for visually impaired students, and the distance between the rows of desks is at least 0.6 m; between desks in a row - at least 0.5 m; between rows of desks and walls without window openings - at least 0.7 m; between a row of tables and a wall with window openings - at least 0.5 m.
• if necessary, during the educational process, the student can be provided with a personal computer with Internet access to training courses in the Moodle system using special programs for the visually impaired (enlarged font, electronic magnifier, etc.)
For people with hearing impairments:
• on the ground floors of the educational buildings, electronic / light displays (scrawling texts) are installed. In the main building "M" there is a floor standing information terminal that provides access to the university website with all main information resources (schedule, news, etc.).
• in the classrooms, if necessary, places are allocated for students with hearing impairments, the distance between the rows of desks is at least 0.6 m; between desks in a row - at least 0.5 m; between rows of desks and walls without window openings - at least 0.7 m; between a row of desks and a wall with window openings - at least 0.5 m.
• if necessary, during the educational process, the student can be provided with a personal computer with Internet access to training courses in the Moodle system using sound amplifying equipment (speakers, headphones, etc.).