John Krishnan is a Psychology/Law student who came to study at the University from Singapore. John is vision-impaired, and received the accessibility services during his two years of study on the Sandy Bay campus.
“The lecturers and tutors, as well as the accessibility staff, have been able to do a huge amount for me to help me get comfortable over here at the University,” John said.
“The first important thing they helped me with was mobility – how to get to lecture and tutorial venues, libraries and other important places on campus.
“Then we moved onto lecture materials, unit outlines and slides, as well as textbooks which have to be provided to me in electronic format.
John said that note-taking was another invaluable support service that the University provided, and was particularly important when lecture material involved pictures, images or figures that were then converted for him into textual form.
And it is not just the University’s official accessibility support services that John has accessed but also teaching staff, as well as his fellow students.
“It has been very good actually, I have never experienced any negative impacts,” John said.
If I require extra time for assignments, lecturers are very open to time extensions or other avenues through which assessment tasks can be completed.’