Students

Students with and without health impairments should be able to study equally successfully and participate fully in the rich development opportunities of a degree course.

However, in order for equal study opportunities to be realized, students with health impairments often require adapted conditions that enable them to study independently in their particular life situation.

Topics:

1. Examinations and compensation for disadvantages
2. Preferential admission to courses
3. Reimbursement of the semester fee for the semester ticket
4. Library services
5. Services offered by the Studierendenwerk
6. Services offered by the ServiceCenter Teaching

7. Further information

To compensate for the additional difficulties that a health impairment entails, particularly when preparing for and taking examinations, affected students have the right to adapted examination conditions. This is to ensure that students with and without health impairments (or disabilities) can participate in examinations on an equal footing and with the same chances of success.

The following are eligible:

• with long-term physical or mental illnesses
• with disabilities
• with acute restrictions, such as the consequences of an accident
• with chronic illnesses
• with other disabilities, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia or dyscalculia
• in serious exceptional family stress situations - for example in connection with pregnancy and childbirth or caring for parents - Equal Opportunities Office

What do I need for my application?

• Submit your application informally and/or using our "Application for examination modification" form well in advance of the service to be provided. Applications submitted after the fact cannot be considered.
• Enclose a medical certificate with your application. Please provide your doctor with our "Handout for preparing a medical certificate". The certificate does not necessarily have to contain a diagnosis, but the restrictions relevant to your studies. Your application must also be comprehensible to non-experts.

Briefly describe your underlying restriction and the extent to which it has a negative impact on taking the examination. Provide information on the required form of compensation.

The form of compensation must be appropriate to the respective impairment. Possible options include

• an extension of working hours and deadlines
• replacing a written examination with an oral one (or vice versa)
• individual examinations instead of group examinations or
• homework as a substitute for certain written examinations.

The compensation for disadvantages may not change the subject requirements or the level of an examination. The examination must be equivalent in terms of subject: The examination modification may only compensate for a disadvantage, but not provide an advantage.

Where do I submit my application?

Submit your application to the relevant examination office in your department. The examination board will decide on your application based on the documents submitted.

Submit your application as early as possible, as in practice the adjustment of the examination conditions often involves some organizational effort (different examination room, additional supervision if the time is extended) and the decision on the application also takes time.

If possible, speak to the examiner at the beginning of the course, as the lecturers will not necessarily be informed of your request for reasons of data protection.

Where can I find advice and support with the application?

You are welcome to contact us, the Service Center for Studies and Disability, the Representative for Studies and Disability or the Student Advisory Service in your department at any time. The students of the ARbS(Autonomes Referat für barrierefreies Studieren - AStA-Kassel) will also be happy to support you with any questions you may have about studying under difficult conditions and help you, for example, with filling out the application or creating an adapted timetable.

Students with health restrictions (disabilities), students with children or with family care responsibilities are often dependent on attending seminars at very specific times: The special challenge they face alongside their studies ultimately demands additional organizational effort from them.

Details of the procedure

In order to support such students, the University of Kassel offers a "preferential admission procedure" in some departments. Students can apply for a status that ensures that they are allocated a place in the seminar of their choice, provided that certain requirements are met and proven.

All details on the preferential selection procedure, the departments currently participating and the necessary deadlines and forms can be found on the information page of the Women's and Equal Opportunities Office (Family-friendly university).

Please note:

Obtaining a place on a course via the preferential selection procedure does not mean that you would automatically be entitled to take the associated examination(s). Further conditions may be necessary for this, which continue to apply irrespective of the dial-in procedure. The preferred dial-in procedure has no effect on whether or not you are allowed to take an exam at a particular time (observe the order!). You should therefore ensure that you are authorized to take an exam in the desired course anyway and only then make use of the preferred dial-in procedure.

As a student with a disability, you are entitled to a refund of the semester fee for the semester ticket by applying for a refund.

Link information semester ticket upgrade Germany ticket:
www.uni-kassel.de/uni/studium/im-studium/studentische-selbstverwaltung/service-und-beratung/semesterticket/upgrade-semesterticket

Link Application for upgrade Germany ticket at NVV for students:
https://abo.nvv.de/nvv/abo/new.aspx

Link General information page Semesterticket Uni Kassel:
https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/studium/im-studium/studentisches-leben/studentische-selbstverwaltung/service-und-beratung/semesterticket.html

Service counter

Do you have any questions or need assistance in obtaining literature? Please contact the service desk on the first floor of the library. You will find it right at the end of the short staircase leading from the main entrance of the library to the first floor.

A tactile map of the library with Braille and large print for people with visual impairments is being planned and will be placed diagonally to the right behind the main entrance in the entrance area of the library.

The barrier-free entrance to the library is located to the right of the main entrance and can be activated and opened with a push-button (to the right in front of the barrier-free entrance).

Please note: The main entrance to the library is a revolving door.

If you have any suggestions or requests regarding the removal of barriers or other issues, please contact us or Ms. Britta Beecken-Hamann at: beecken[at]bibliothek.uni-kassel[dot]de

Literature conversion

The library offers students with visual impairments the opportunity to convert teaching materials into a suitable form that can be read by screen readers.

Contact:
Phone: +49 562 804 7715
literaturumsetzung[at]bibliothek.uni-kassel[dot]de
For more information, please click here: Literature conversion service for the visually impaired

LfS room: Special workstation for blind and visually impaired students

The library has a specially equipped workstation for the blind, which can be used by any visually impaired student.

Equipment:

• a screen reader from the company Reinecker
• an 80 Braille display from the Baum company
• a braille printer
• a scanner for scanning documents and books
• a reading lamp
• a high-quality monitor
• Jaws and Zoomtext on the PC available there
• a braille typewriter and braille paper

Who can use this workstation?

All students with visual impairments are entitled to use it. All you have to do is get an introduction to the room and the equipment and set up a personal account on the PC. Please contact Mr. Stephan Volkwein for this. Now you can get the key for the LfS room at any time during the library's opening hours in the main entrance area and work there in peace and quiet.

Contact LfS room:

E-mail:
Phone: +49 561 804 7181
For more information, please see the following link: Use of LfS room

Barrier-free library introduction

Time: Always at the beginning of the winter semester
Place and meeting point: Campus Library, Holländischer Platz, entrance hall.

Description:
In cooperation with the Service Center for Studies and Disability, the University Library offers the possibility of a library introduction for students with health restrictions and disabilities and for all those who would like an introduction with a little more time at the individual stations. The event gives you the opportunity to get to know the Campus Library as the largest location of Kassel University Library in terms of accessibility. All students who are interested in the support services offered by the campus library can take part.

Contents:

• Literature search in the catalog portal KARLA
• Searching for media on the shelf
• Self-service devices for borrowing and returning items
• Advice at the service desk
• Support for visually impaired students etc.

Barrier-free library tour:

Every first Tuesday in November.

Britta Beecken-Hamann
Kassel University Library
Representation Department II: Use

E-mail:
Phone: +49 561 804 - 2142

Requests for assistance can be made by e-mail:

Telephone interpreting service for the hard of hearing and deaf: Tess Relay Services (Sign & Script): Link

Counseling services

The Studierendenwerk offers counseling services (psychological counseling, social counseling, legal counseling, student finance counseling) and provides orientation and decision-making support in various life and study situations.

Further information can be found on the Studierendenwerk website: https://www.studierendenwerk-kassel.de/sozialberatung

Social Counseling (Concetta Mugavero and Mike Pillardy)

Focus: Assistance with social benefits, international students, studying with children and students with chronic illnesses and disabilities...

Open consultation hours in presence Monday 10-12 a.m. in the Campus Center, 3rd floor, room 3342 - Please take a ticket at the ticket printer

Telephone consultation hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1-4 p.m.
Phone: +49 561 804-2564

Advice on student financing:

https:// www.studierendenwerk-kassel.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Dateien/Beratung_Studienfinanzierung/Flyer_Studienfinanzierung.pdf

Advice and support services for everyday life outside of university

In addition to our counseling services for students with disabilities and chronic illnesses, the Studierendenwerk Kassel offers further counseling and support services for all aspects of everyday life outside of university: These include, for example

• Financial advice
• legal advice
• Social counseling
• Psychological counseling center
• Questions about housing and student residences

To contact us, please call the office at 49 561 804-2800 or visit the following page:
https://www.studierendenwerk-kassel.de/beratung/

Barrier-free living

The student residences of the Studierendenwerk have several barrier-free residences.

• To apply for an accessible place in a hall of residence, please contact: https://www.studierendenwerk-kassel.de/wohnen/
• You can also apply for a publicly subsidized barrier-free apartment in Kassel with a certificate of eligibility for housing from the city. All citizens with a low income can obtain such a certificate of eligibility. Further information on the housing entitlement certificate:
  https://www.kassel.de/service/produkte/kassel/Bauverwaltungsamt/wohnberechtigungsschein.php
• Application for a certificate of eligibility for housing:
  https://fms.stadt-kassel.de/jfs/findform?shortname=form000102&formtecid=3&areashortname=kassel
• Please also check whether you are entitled to apply for housing benefit.
  Further information on housing benefit:
  https://www.kassel.de/service/produkte/kassel/sozialamt/wohngeld-beantragen.php
• To apply for funds for a conversion or to purchase aids, please contact the EUTB (Ergänzende unabhängige Teilhabeberatung) of SLiN e. v. at: http://www.slin-ev.de/beratung.html

Special workstations

• In addition to the actual PC workstations, the E-Assessment Center (Henschelstraße 2) has two special workstations. The special workstations are located in the administration office of the E-Assessment Center.

Workstation A (for visually impaired students) has

• a particularly large monitor
• a screen magnifier with integrated light
• a cold light reading lamp
• an 80 mm Braille display from Focus
• Jaws
• Magic

Seat B (for the hearing impaired) has

• an LA hearing loop

Both special workstations are located on larger and electrically height-adjustable tables, so that there is enough space for both work assistants and wheelchairs. Students who require a lot of quiet and privacy can also make use of these workstations.
The E-Assessment Center also has two additional workstations in the examination room with height-adjustable, wider tables that are also suitable for wheelchair users.

Recommendation:
If you would like to use one of these workstations, please contact the E-Assessment Center team in good time. The e-mail address is eklausur[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
All special conditions due to compensation for disadvantages, even in the case of an extension of time, must be discussed and clarified in advance with the lecturer or the examination office so that they can be taken into account when taking the exam."

Further helpful information can be found on the E-Assessment Center page.

Central media lending service

In addition to other services, the Central Media Loan Office provides students with various resources for a short period of time.

You can borrow here

• an FM system for the hearing impaired (model: Williams sound DLT 100)
• an OHP from WolfVision Vz 8plus4 Visualizer (digital overhead projector)
• a video camera
• It is also possible to produce audio recordings or descriptions in the sound and editing room. This room must be booked in advance for a specific period of time. The recordings are not made by the media lending service, but must be made by the students themselves.

You will find the central media lending desk on the first floor of the Teaching Service Center: (Room 0209)
Further helpful information can be found on the media lending desk page.

Autonomous department for barrier-free studying.

Barrier-free university sport

Rudren inclusive: https: //www.rudern.de/pararudern

If you have any questions or are interested, please contact

Simon Nowak

Email: simon-twin1[at]gmx[dot]net

Disabled sports community Kassel:

https:// www.bsg-kassel.de/