About the booklets

The topics covered by the new Teachability booklets are:

• Creating accessible information about courses or programmes of study for disabled students and applicants.
• Creating accessible course or programme design and structure for disabled students.
• Creating accessible lectures for disabled students.
• Creating accessible seminars and tutorials for disabled students.
• Creating accessible placements, study abroad and field trips for disabled students.
• Creating accessible practical classes for disabled students.
• Creating accessible e-learning resources for disabled students.
• Creating accessible examinations and assessments for disabled students.

Each booklet is intended to assist staff to focus on one aspect of curriculum design or delivery at a time. Quotations from academic staff and also from disabled students convey people’s experience of learning and teaching, of students’ experience of possible barriers and of academics’ creative but also often very straightforward methods of resolving problems, within the constraints of their own subject areas.

The Question and Answer sections on the legislation aim to be focussed: for example, as a tutor or as someone who devises assessments for students, what are the particular things I need to know about disability legislation?

Thinking about teaching and how teaching is experienced by disabled students can be challenging. The evaluation sections at the end of each Teachability booklet hopefully do not reduce the task to a checklist. Academic staff are invited to consider what best describes their current practices, and to summarise their views about whether the impact of their teaching on disabled students could be improved on.

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