Site map for Understanding and awareness

  1. Understanding and awareness
  2. Statistics and trends
  3. Depictions of disability
  4. Communicating with disabled students
    1. Etiquette: Communicating with visually impaired students
    2. Effective communication with deaf students
      1. Students who lip-read
      2. Students who use hearing aids
      3. Students who use a sign language interpreter
      4. Deaf students and written English
    3. Etiquette: Mobility and dexterity
  5. Models of disability
    1. Medical model
    2. Social model
  6. What are hidden disabilities?
  7. Experiences of disability
  8. Describing disability
    1. What is visual impairment?
      1. Common terms relating to visual impairment
    2. What is deafness?
      1. Types of deafness
    3. What are specific learning difficulties?
    4. Understanding mental health difficulties
      1. Students with mental health difficulties
      2. Common terms in mental health
      3. Mental health difficulties: A hidden disability
      4. Suicide and self harm
    5. Mobility, dexterity, pain and fatigue
      1. Damage to muscles
      2. Joint damage
      3. Damage to the nervous system and spinal injuries
      4. Damage to the brain
      5. Epilepsy
  9. How much support should you provide?