How can the tertiary education system help disabled learners?

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All organisations that offer a service must also make reasonable adjustments.

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When organisations make reasonable adjustments, they change things about their organisation to suit what a disabled person needs.

For example, how they share information.

When these tertiary organisations make reasonable adjustments, it changes how people:

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  • teach learners

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  • hire staff

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  • get support

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  • share information they need to learn.

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When disabled learners take part in the tertiary education system, they sometimes get good support.

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But a lot of this support comes from disability support workers.

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This means disability support workers want more support to help disabled people to learn.

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The tertiary education system needs to change how they support disabled learners.