Targeted study support
The university must be accessible to everyone. Uppsala University offers a wide variety of support and services to students and doctoral students with disabilities. Targeted pedagogical support is a collective term for these supports and adjustments. The support entails different forms of initiatives and measures to remove, compensate or overcome obstacles that could arise in connection with studying.
At Uppsala University, there are approximately 2,000 students who have been granted targeted study support. Students who have been granted support must have a contact person at their department.
In order to be granted targeted study support, the student's disability must be documented in accordance with the Swedish Discrimination Act's definition:
Disability means permanent physical, mental or intellectual limitation of a person’s functional capacity that as a consequence of injury or illness existed at birth, has arisen since then or can be expected to arise.
A temporary illness or injury does not qualify a student to receive support or help for that disability. In such cases, the student is advised to seek support at their own department.
The targeted study support is based on the Discrimination Act and the form of discrimination "inadequate accessibility". That means that a person with disability is disadvantaged through a failure to take measures for accessibility to enable the person to come into a situation comparable with that of persons without this disability
As a state authority, Uppsala University also has responsibility in accordance with the ”Förordning om de statliga myndigheternas ansvar för genomförande av funktionshinderspolitiken (SFS 2014:135)".
Contact person
What does it mean to be a contact person for students with disabilities?
Areas of responsibility
The university's responsibility and decisions on forms of support and adjustments.
Teaching students with dyslexia
What difficulties do students with dyslexia experience in their studies? In five videos (in Swedish), different teaching situations are described from a student perspective and what you as a teacher can do to facilitate these situations.
Inform your students
Information in the student entrance
Refer your students to the student gateway on studies and disability, where they will find all the information they need.
Video about the support
There is an information film aimed at students about targeted study support that you can show, for example, at the start of the course:
Contact
There are coordinators for targeted study support in Uppsala and on Campus Gotland who work with the university-wide targeted study support that concerns studies and disabilities. The coordinators offer information opportunities to departments upon request.
Coordinators in Uppsala:
Annica Thorszelius
Lena Markendahl
Linda Matsson
Coordinator in Visby, Campus Gotland:
Sanna Carlberg
Do you want to learn more about different disabilities and what support is available in society in general? Please visit Infoteket's website, Region Uppsala (in Swedish).
Contact persons
List to all contact persons at the faculties/departments/programmes (in Swedish)