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Description

DescriptionConversations about accessibility is an ongoing process, involving many different people along the way.

Students with accessibility needs are supported by the campus’s accessibility office, which works to liaise with different stakeholders (Infrastructure, Faculty, student affairs) from the time of matriculation. This support may be personalised in some cases, and is constantly changing, with repeated check-ins between staff and individual students during the students’ educational journey.

This ongoing conversation is also facilitated by consistent outreach and engagement activities. On a formal level, this conversation starts early in the educational journey of YNC students, with most of them first introduced to Intercultural Engagement. Designed to educate students about privilege and diversity in the college experience, this segment of orientation hopes expose students to neurodivergence and diversity on campus, of which accessibility is one key part of it.

The accessibility library, within the intercultural engagement office, is a space for individuals to drop in and borrow books discussing physical accessibility and accessibility support. Workshops are also consistently held throughout the academic year, to educate individuals about neurodivergent groups in our lives, and how best we can ally with them. Large-scale events such as our annual Diversity Week provide another platform for accessibility issues to be emphasised, and a way to increase outreach to others.

Publication

With Open Eyes: Diversity Week 20/20

Diversity Week 2019: Embodying Community. January 28th-February 1st

The Campus Life Team Presents: Diversity Week 2018. Connecting in a world of difference. April 2-6, 2018

Ephemera

Learning Accomodations