Accessibility: 
Special facilities for students with disabilities:

• flexible study programs,
• appointing representatives or offices for handling affairs of the disabled,
• founding student career offices helping with the questions related to entering the labor market,
• fitting didactic rooms with specialist equipment facilitating the education,
• providing assistance for the disabled as well as sign language interpreters during the time at the university,
• offering financial assistance (need-based grants).

Accommodation: Accommodation in rooms adapted to the needs of the disabled in the dorms of the University of Szczecin (adapted rooms and toilets).

Library:
Accessibility of the information resources
Internet
Library resources and the base of articles
Optical magnifiers in the reading rooms
Computer stands for the blind and visually impaired in the reading rooms
Computer room
Braille line – 80 cells.
Jaws 13 program – software with the text-to-speech output and Braille display.

The main goal of the Office’s operation is to provide the disabled students of the University of Szczecin with studying conditions equal to those of the others. Among others, the Office:

• takes active part in the liquidation of mental, communication and architecture barriers;
• organizes cultural and integrative events;
• cooperates with the disabled and represents their interests and needs;
• provides the disabled applicants with the information on the recruitment and the University’s assistance abilities;
• increases and accessibility of studying at the University of Szczecin;
• provides assistance in the form of practical support and information;
• solves individual problems.

Handicapped students at the Szczecin University may count on:

• the help in gaining funds from PFRON (Student Program), from „Aktywny Samorząd” – MOPR and special grants from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education,
• the aid of didactic assistants,
• learning in didactic rooms fitted with technical equipment facilitating education of the disabled students,
• alternative form of taking exams.

Assessments
Special grant for the disabled
PSYCHOLOGICAL AID POINT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN
Alternative forms of taking examinations

DISABILITY Services
DZIAŁ WSPARCIA OSÓB Z NIEPEŁNOSPRAWNOŚCIAMI
ul. Kordeckiego 15
Dom Studenta nr 3 – parter
71-066 Szczecin
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e-mail: patrycja.balszan@usz.edu.pl, justyna.markiton@usz.edu.pl
Phone/Fax number: +48 91 444 38 70
Website: http://bon.usz.edu.pl/