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Mini-series: How do we ensure wellbeing for autistic students at The University of Edinburgh?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Although our Student Disability Service offers autism awareness training, all too often the job of educating staff falls to individual autistic students, and we know anecdotally that many autistic people struggle to identify what adjustments would be helpful. Jul 31, 2019 This is much easier said than done. for details.

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Supporting academic community at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Scholarships and Student Funding work with The Advice Place, Finance and ACE; the Careers Service works with Student Disability Service , and SRA. All services have links with Colleges and Schools, and there are some key partnerships including but not limited to the Careers Service and Student Disability Service.

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Subtitling pilot project at Moray House: Review and reflections

Teaching Matters Academic Support

We launched the service in May 2019, and raised awareness through school meetings, staff newsletters, and posters on campus. Secondly, we worked with Student Disability Services to help identify courses where there were students with a schedule who we may not have been aware of. Feb 5, 2020

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Ridgewater announces new DEI director and social justice speaker series open to the public

Ridgewater College

In her position, Schwandt will lead a new unit that will incorporate Disability Services, TRiO student support services for underserved populations, and community resources to help meet student basic needs. She’ll also advise international students and manage services for military and veteran students.

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Top ten Teaching Matters posts of 2021

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

“An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum” (January 2019): [link] We’re always happy to see a student-written post make it to the 10 ten list! ” (February 2019): [link] Last but not least, Andrés Ordorica from Information Services breaks down what learning design entails.

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Mini-series: Linking learning and teaching with mental health and wellbeing

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Andy’s remit includes leading strategically on student wellbeing and tackling sexual violence, and responsibility for the Counselling Service, the Student Disability Service, the Chaplaincy and the University Pharmacy, as well as for relationships with the University Health Centre. Jul 3, 2019

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An Ode to Academia in the post-pandemic era: Ableism, (un)Seen (dis)Abilities & access-ability of Online Teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

I have been trying to gather crumbs around this issue in Asian contexts, and to my dismay, the only evidence I could find was a policy paper on the employability of persons with “visible” disabilities ( Tan et al., No one ever talks about teacher accessibility’: Examining ableist expectations in academia. Abdullah, M.

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