This programme focuses on the administration and management of those technical and human resources needed for giving support to students with disabilities. The awarding of all those resources represents an instrument of positive discrimination in order to equate the opportunities of these students in the university. Depending on the resource used Personal or Technical Support will be provided.

Technical Support

The main actions are offered within these type of support are:

• Material adaptation: In collaboration with the Spanish National Organisation of the Blind (ONCE) are made the adaptations needed for the collective of students with visual deficit and blind persons so they can access to the study material: zoom in large-print feature, Braille transcription, reliefs, audio, text...
• Exams transcriptions: Exams are transcribed and adapted to Braille, text, relief and sign language.
• Support products borrowing: A number of resources are availabel (recorders, voice recognition programmes, FM radio stations...) which can be used throughout the academic year.
• Carbonless notebooks: Notebooks are delivered to students who have difficulties in note-taking, thus through volunteering they can have the material more quickly.
• Software installation and access programmes in those facilities where is needed.
• Adaptations in the classroom of any furniture that need it, for example, tables, adaptable chairs...
• Management for the access to the parkings. Access forms to the UV parking are processed for the students who have the disability certificate and the parking care of the City Council for people with reduced mobility.

Personal support

Two types of support:

• Support staff: Actions which can not be carried out by the volunteers of the UV as specific knowledge is required and they should be carried out by professionals, such as: posture changes, accompaniment for using the toilet, support for eating or other similar actions.
• Sign language interpreter: In collaboration with the Valencian Community Federation of the Deaf (Fesord C.V.) the service of interpreters of sign languages is provided for classes, tutorials or sessions requested by students with deafness.