1. General Supports - Disability Service

2. Areas we will cover : 45 min
Disability Service contact & role in supporting students
Disability Supports
Assistive Technology
Academic support
Exam accommodations
Library privileges
Occupational Therapy
Disclosure
What is the code of practice ?
Questions ?

3. Disability Service contact & role in supporting students
A Disability office will work to address the specific support needs of students.
Address across a number of departments to aid in the use and understanding of your specific support requirements
Address any concerns issues you may have in relation to your disability and its impact on your study
If your issues is related to your course i.e. issue with a specific module your appointed college tutor is your first area of contact.
For all communication that is related to your learning difficulty please contact are department by

4. Disability Service Supports http://www. tcd

5. Technology Support or Assistive Technology (AT)
What is Assistive Technology ?
Assistive technology is the use of very simple technology - your mobile phone or use of to the very complex - use of voice recognition software or technology that will read information from your computer screen.
Such technology support can help you create, proof and build confidence is your writing examples include:
Text to voice software
Proof/ Spelling software
Mind-mapping software
Similar to previous year -
Physical – ergonomic referrals – use of Dragon s/w
SLD – Audio note taker / Livescribe & R&W
Less with mental health – day to day activities – remembering tools
No new blind students – sensory figures low.

6. Technology Support or Assistive Technology (AT)
Text to Speech software: Balabooka software
Similar to previous year -
Physical – ergonomic referrals – use of Dragon s/w
SLD – Audio note taker / Livescribe & R&W
Less with mental health – day to day activities – remembering tools
No new blind students – sensory figures low.

7. Technology Support or Assistive Technology (AT)
Spelling & grammar s/w : Ginger Software
Similar to previous year -
Physical – ergonomic referrals – use of Dragon s/w
SLD – Audio note taker / Livescribe & R&W
Less with mental health – day to day activities – remembering tools
No new blind students – sensory figures low.

8. Technology Support or Assistive Technology (AT)
Mind-mapping software s/w : Freemind
Similar to previous year -
Physical – ergonomic referrals – use of Dragon s/w
SLD – Audio note taker / Livescribe & R&W
Less with mental health – day to day activities – remembering tools
No new blind students – sensory figures low.

9. Technology Support or Assistive Technology (AT)
My-Study bar
Consists of eight useful software collections that are free for you to download and use.
Similar to previous year -
Physical – ergonomic referrals – use of Dragon s/w
SLD – Audio note taker / Livescribe & R&W
Less with mental health – day to day activities – remembering tools
No new blind students – sensory figures low.

10. Technology Support or Assistive Technology (AT)
Text to Speech software: Texthelp Read & write
- Available on all PC labs & for 30 days free
Similar to previous year -
Physical – ergonomic referrals – use of Dragon s/w
SLD – Audio note taker / Livescribe & R&W
Less with mental health – day to day activities – remembering tools
No new blind students – sensory figures low.

11. Technology Support or Assistive Technology (AT)
Note-taking Support
Similar to previous year -
Physical – ergonomic referrals – use of Dragon s/w
SLD – Audio note taker / Livescribe & R&W
Less with mental health – day to day activities – remembering tools
No new blind students – sensory figures low.

12. Academic Support What is academic support ?
Academic support aims to give the student the tools to improve your writing, exams and presentation skills
Academic support is not a proofreading service
There are a host of online resources available to students to interact with and workshops to attend ran by Student learning and development

13. Academic Support – Student Learning & development

14. Academic Support – Disability website

15. Academic Support – Disability website

16. Exams Accommodations
Examination accommodations are based on the impact of a disability on the student
All students registering the Disability Service have examinations accommodations set to 10 mins extra per hour
For this accommodation to be awarded all students exams with this accommodation are helped in a separate group venue to that of their class piers, this will be communicated to you solely via your mytcd.ie portal.
To ensure the Examinations Office can set up your accommodations for examination purposes the following deadlines are applied:
Michaelmas term: End of week 8, Semester 1.
Hilary & Annual examinations: End of week 3, Semester 2.
Supplemental examinations: End of week 44, Semester 2.

17. Exams Accommodations
Our Website give more details on how exam accommodation are set and communicated:

18. Library - Special Borrowing Privileges
Students registered with the DS are entitled to special borrowing privileges in the Library.
You student number is forwarded to the Library service and from 2 weeks of completing registration with the Disability service you will have access to SBP indicted to the library staff by a tick on there system
This allows you to borrow extra books, and also to borrow items from some of the Libraries non-lending collections.
The rules regarding fines and overdue items that apply to all students will also apply to you.

19. Library - Special Borrowing Privileges
You can borrow up to 8 books from the Library. You are restricted to a maximum of 4 books from the Lending collection. A lending item which has a yellow sticker on the spine of the book, may be borrowed for one week, lending items without a yellow sticker are for 4 weeks.
What cannot be borrowed?
All Periodicals/Newspapers
Theses,
Ref&Bib books
Most Official Publications.
Research Area items
A fine of 50c per item per day are charged on all overdue items. This increases to 2.50 (Super Fines) per item per day during exam time on week loan books only.

20. Occupational Therapy Support
Occupational Therapy focuses on all the activities or ‘Occupations’ that you do on a day-to-day basis, such as getting to college, planning your workload, organising your time or going to societies.
Practical Strategies - Student Centred

21. Occupational Therapy Support

22. Disclosure
All information and medical evidence provided is stored securely with the Disability Service
No evidence/ personal statements are shared to any external parties or academic areas without agreement from the student
Minimum information is shared to the relevant staff within Trinity (i.e. teaching staff, your Tutor) to help them to also provide assistance were required were there is a need
- This information ( student name & number )is shared twice a year :
Week 7 (Michaelmas)
Week 7 (Hilary)

23. Disclosure of Disability related information: The final page of the Code of practice asks you to tick yes to areas

24. What is the Code of Practice ?
The Code of Practice has two main purposes:
To outline for students with disabilities their rights and responsibilities in receiving reasonable accommodations while studying at Trinity;
To define Trinity's rights and responsibilities to students with disabilities and the College community
By signing the code of practice you are formally completing your registration with the Disability Service
Boundaries of are support / i.e. change in support need / communication with are office

25. Questions ? Any questions on the above?
If you wish to mail in your query or would like meet 1:1 to discuss the above supports in more details please mail me at
Boundaries of are support / i.e. change in support need / communication with are office