Creating opportunities, ensuring equal opportunities and social advancement in most cases, we become aware of enrolled students’ illnesses, conditions, and possible
disabilities that cause learning difficulties during the admission application and procedure, enrollment, and study administration. We treat the affected students with special attention, we help them with different methods – screen reader JAWS software, provision of an individual study schedule, individual consultations, continuous learning support. Based on the Buddhist understanding, beyond the possibilities of relief and exemption set out in the legislation, we empathize with both the disabled and disadvantaged students. Based on individual requests, students can receive help according to the indicated problem from the sponsoring Church, the teaching staff and the mentors.
According to the experience of our institutional disability coordinator, it often happens that the status entitling to exemption or relief cannot be officially verified because they did not take part in an expert examination, but we provide as much support as possible in this case as well. In justified cases, we provide information on the available tests and recommend obtaining an expert opinion in order to take advantage of all discounts according to the law.
Most of the time, more intensive learning support and the flexibility of the lecturers to extend the deadline for the papers to be submitted are sufficient, so our students succeed. If
necessary, students can be exempted from attending classes, in which case the instructors support the students with more intensive online contact and tasks that can be completed in Moodle. We recommend the passivation of the semester as rarely as possible, instead we strive to help students with their academic progress with alternative solutions.
Between 2020 and 2022, the special course “Sign Language Interpretation” was organized by our active students, during which several students could learn how to help and support their hearing-impaired peers.
