Guide to - support and adjustments

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PLACEMENTS The Disability Advisory Service works with academic departments and placement providers to implement adjustments to the type of work undertaken if there are any disability-related reasons why the usual duties of the role cannot be carried out. Alternatively, it may necessary to arrange adjustments to working hours for students to allow for shorter days, or different working patterns to allow a day off in the middle of the week for students with high levels of fatigue. Recommendations can also be made to consider the impact that travel time to and from placements may have on a student’s wellbeing. Additionally, the provision of parking for students who have a blue badge or for who walking to and from a car park located away from the placement location would prove a significant barrier may also need to be considered when allocating a placement. In cases where the accessibility of the placement location is important, such as the need for a student using a wheelchair to have step-free access to the place of work, this information will be passed to the relevant staff involved with allocating placements. To find out about the provisions we have in halls, as well information on grants, personal care assistance and more to support your disability, please see the information online at: https://student.reading.ac.uk/ essentials/_support-andwellbeing/disability/ ACCOMMODATION
CAMPUS ACCESSIBILITY The university has three campuses; Whiteknights, London Road and Greenlands. Whiteknights is the main campus, set in 130 hectares of parkland and with the full range of student academic, support and social facilities. The campus is mostly flat, though there can be a considerable distance between buildings due to its size. Accordingly, we can recommend that adjustments are made to students’ timetables to allow for additional time to travel between lectures for students with mobility difficulties, or for back-to-back lectures to be timetabled into rooms within a reasonable distance of each other. London Road and Greenlands are smaller, more specialist campuses. London Road is home to the Institute of Education and as one of the university’s original campuses, has a number of older buildings which can present more of a challenge in terms of accessibility. Greenlands is used by the University's Henley Business School as the base for its MBA and corporate learning, and is situated on the banks of the River Thames near Henley. Both campuses have spaces for parking, including a number of space specifically for blue badge holders. Other students may apply for a permit, and we can support these applications when required for disability-related reasons. Buses run between the Whiteknights campus and Reading town centre every 7 minutes on a 24/7 basis, and several services that stop outside many of the halls of residence. All buses have accessibility features such as low floors, the ability to ‘kneel’ to allow easy access, provision of ramps and a space for a wheelchair.
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