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Academic Support for
Disabled Students as an
Example of Social
Responsibility of University
Ireneusz Bialek
Małgorzata Perdeus
Dagmara Nowak-Adamczyk
Jagiellonian University
Founded in
1364
Disability Support Service
 academic center providing educational support for disabled
students of the Jagiellonian University, candidates, university staff,
people supporting the idea of inclusive education to the
mainstream
 mission: ensuring equal educational opportunities, equal rights,
equal responsibilities
Disability Support Service’s offert is focused on:
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students with visual impairment
students withhearing impairment
students with mobility impairment
students with mental health diffficulties
students with dyslexia, dysgraphia
students with other disabilities
university candidates
university academic staff and administration
Statistics 2010/2011:
44 813 all students at the Jagiellonian University/667 disabled
students
Responsible university
Academic model of students’ support
student
 Support in a process
of learning/teaching
 Disability awareness
academic
staff
Disability
Support
Service
The Constellation Leo:
The educational support programme for
Jagiellonian University students with
mental health difficulties
www.LeoProject.eu
Why the project?
 Significant increase in the number of students with mental health
difficulties
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2007/2008
2009/2010
Statistics in detail: 2009/2010
 28 % of students with depression
 23 % of students with schizophrenia
 12 % of students with drug addiction
About the Project
 Duration time: January 2010 – August 2011
 Participants: 40 Jagiellonian University students
 Criteria:
- motivation,
- need of psychological support
Prorities
 to offer wide-ranging psychological support to students with
mental health difficulties
 to offer such students bespoke training programmes focusing on
maximum use of their potential related to the educational process
and their functioning in knowledge-based society
 to open the website, facilitating a better understanding of
problems faced by students with mental health difficulties and
promoting solid knowledge on mental illnesses and their
consequences, and
 combating stereotypes related to mental health difficulties in the
academic community.
student with
mental health
difficulties
inclusion
academic
community
Actions:
 First stage: psychological support
 Second stage: personalized training programmes supporting
a learning process
 Parallel: educational platforme
Results
 inclusion of 40 students with mental health difficulties in a
comprehensive programme of psychological support and
personalised training programmes on social competences;
 in justified cases, referring the students to high-quality specialists
in psychiatry offering consultation;
 launching a debate in the academic community on mental health
difficulties and their consequences for the teaching process, and
 equipping the broadly understood academic community with the
ability to respond to problems and challenges related to the
presence of persons with mental health dificulties at university.
‘My Journey’
- reflections on mental health
and university education
„These are my two
biggest dreams in life: to
be healthy and to
graduate from the
university”.
Ewa Kowalska, My Journey