Whether you are about to deliver your first group work for disabled students, or you have lots of experience, I hope my 5 top tips will be helpful: Run your slides through the accessibility checker (as you may be emailing your slides to the students after the session). If delivering in-person go and check the… Read More Workshops for disabled students – my 5 top tips
An exhibition from Clarke Reynolds centred around colourful Braille art: https://www.itv.com/news/london/2023-01-06/the-braille-artist-challenging-perceptions-of-art-with-first-london-exhibition Google’s new research centre in London producing disability support tech: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63828617 Coventry University have received a grant to find solutions to improve transport accessibility. Poor access to public transport impacts the lives of disabled people in many ways. You can read more here: … Read More An artist, a new research centre, and improving access to transport – Disability in the news
NAS Autism at Work programme Auticon vacancies Employability skills for autistic students and graduates (free online course) Employability toolkit for students and graduates (IMAGE Project) Enna Resources (Enna also has a vacancy board) WRIPA (for students at York, Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, and Nottingham) Edmund Lewis, AGCAS Disability Task Group, LSE Careers
A cover letter can be a good place to share information about disability. Here are some ideas of how to do this effectively: Motivation – it might be your disability is part of your motivation for applying for the role. Or it might be that having a disability gives you a natural affinity with the… Read More Writing about disability in cover letters
With graduate scheme applications season almost upon us, I thought it was a good time to share a few top tips for disabled students taking psychometric tests. Here are my top 5 tips: You can find more tips for navigating psychometric tests here on our Disability Task Group psychometric tests resource: https://www.agcas.org.uk/Task-Groups/disability-task-group/137586 (Once you click… Read More 5 tips for taking psychometric tests
Phoenix, the AGCAS journal, has today published The Professionalism Issue Within the issue, there is a feature on a free online employability course for autistic students and graduates mentioned previously on this blog when we launched it in May of this year. We know that autistic graduates experience the highest unemployment rate of all disability… Read More Progress on the new autism employability course
According to the gov.uk website if you are a student: Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) is support to cover the study-related costs you have because of a mental health problem, long term illness or any other disability. This can be on its own or in addition to any student finance you get. The type of support… Read More Introduction to DSA
The Disability Task Group presented at last month’s AGCAS Conference. The recording of ‘How to approach 1-2-1 appointments with disabled students: mental health, neurodiversity, and other conditions’ can be found here: https://www.agcas.org.uk/Annual-Conference-2022/Parallel-sessions-A#A1 Overview of the presentation: National Context Practical adjustments for 1-2-1 appointments Common themes Reflections Resources Q&As Hope this will be a useful resource… Read More How to approach 1-2-1 appointments with disabled students
Based on Graduate Outcomes data, What Happens Next? 2022 looks in detail at the outcomes of 2019 disabled graduates. The report has been produced annually by the AGCAS Disability Task Group for nearly 20 years. Some key findings from the 2022 report: The ongoing upward trend in the proportion of graduates from first degrees disclosing a disability… Read More What Happens Next? 2022 (A report on the outcomes of 2019 disabled graduates)
I’m excited to let you know about a new employability course for autistic students and graduates. The course has 5 main sections covering interview preparation, adjustments, knowing yourself & your autism, and planning your career path. It has been created by both autistic and non-autistic professionals. For more about the course, and to meet my… Read More Free employability course for autistic students & graduates!
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