Academic Support of Students with Disabilities in University

Abstract

The paper presents materials concerning the organization of educational process and creation of special educational environment for students with disabilities. It focuses on the development and application of special academic resources appropriate for different types of disability; also, it describes approaches to designing print and electronic learning resources (coursebooks, study materials etc.) for students with visual, hearing and motor impairments depending on their disability and character of perception of information. The paper discusses conditions that promote students’ awareness of the means of accessing special learning resources. The authors stress the necessity of creating a unified educational and methodological pool of materials on various aspects of teaching students with disabilities. Finally, the paper reveals features of implementation of basic pedagogical technologies, including the ones that involve distant communication between a teacher and a student, and analyses several teaching techniques aimed at students with disabilities, highlighting the effectiveness of practice-oriented teaching.