Disclaimer
- All case studies are fictitious; they are based on our lived experience with students in labs and the range of disabilities we have encountered but are not descriptive of any individual.
- The virtual environment prepared for the discussion aims to direct and focus the discussion, or to be used as a starting point. Your teaching/working environment will probably be different to this; it will be useful to consider the similarities and differences in your approach to reasonable adjustments in different spaces.We are very keen on understanding what the commonalities and differences are for different disciplines and laboratory types.
- We consider laboratories to include any non-traditional learning spaces (i.e. not a lecture theatre, seminar room) where students do practical work in the session rather than remain seated and receive information or hold only discussions.
- We recognise that we are asking you to discuss student needs without being able to ask the students for specific details and will require the reader to make assumptions. Even though these are limited in that respect, we hope the case studies are a useful training resource to help us understand our own spaces and accommodation possibilities better by discussing them as a group. We also hope that by providing generic information you will be able to share your experiences of working with students presenting similar backgrounds. The aim for having these resources is to support everyone in their decision-making. Creating a network of supportive practitioners able to provide peer support is our main goal for this conference.
