Creating accessible lectures for disabled students

4. Evaluating practice

Positive practice?

Note the provisions or arrangements in your institution which currently promote the accessibility of lectures for disabled students.

Potential barriers?

StatementTrue/true to some extent/false
All lecturers, including guest lecturers, are well informed and prepared to design and deliver lectures in ways which will be as ready as possible for the diverse needs of all students including students who may be disabled.  
Our institutional and departmental communication systems are sufficiently robust to ensure that where a disabled student has informed the institution of their disability, lecturing staff will always know in advance what the student might need in the context of a lecture.  
Our lecture theatres are well provided with audio visual and other equipment which might be essential or helpful to some disabled students. 
There is an institution wide database of information about the resources available in all teaching rooms, and this is used to match rooms to student and staff groups, taking account of disabled students' needs. 
We have a well publicised departmental policy about attendance at lectures and this incorporates maximum flexibility about student attendance, consistent with competence and other academic standards. 
The ways in which we inform students about location and timing of lectures takes account of students' diverse needs in relation to access to print. 

Possible solutions:

Where you consider that there is a need for positive action in relation to some of your comments above, detail the solution(s) you would regard as effective, and note the locus of responsibility

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