Disability Centre

The TUT Service for Students with Disabilities is dedicated to the implementation of TUT’s mission statement, ‘We empower people’. Disabled students face unique stumbling blocks in a tertiary education environment. Our service aims at facilitating a process of identifying these stumbling blocks, and finding practical solutions that empower our students to participate to the full extent of their ability.

Our service includes:

• Advice on reasonable accommodation with respect to assistance and extra time for tests and exams.
• Consulting students and linking them to specific services and resources available at TUT.
• Access to specialised computer equipment that make it possible for students with visual impairments to do their assignments and use the internet.
• Converting study material into electronic or Braille format.
• Facilitating tests and exams (in collaboration with academic departments and the Exam Department) for students with visual impairment who have to use specialised computer equipment.
• Support to lecturers and staff on issues relating to the accommodation of disabled students.
• Assistance to students via advocacy and appropriate liaison with the relevant departments concerning matters of reasonable accommodation (residence accommodation, transport matters, class accessibility, etc.).

Important information for lecturers on testing procedures:

Some students with visual disabilities need to write their tests on a specialised computer with or without the added assistance of Braille. Lecturers should make arrangements for the test with the SDS disability coordinator on campus at least two weeks in advance.

Contacts:      

Ms Mari Oosthuysen	012 382 5072	Service Manager	Pretoria, Arcadia and Arts campuses
Mr John Mason	012 382 4130	Coordination and assistance,  technological support via Disability Lab (Building 4, Pretoria Campus)	Pretoria, Arcadia and Arts campuses
Mr Daniel Ramokgadi	012 382 9548	Disability Coordinator	Soshanguve Campus
Ms Ivy Morulane	012 382 0620	Disability Coordinator	Ga-Rankuwa Campus
Mr Elikanah Lumadi	013 745 3572	Disability Coordinator	Nelspruit Campus
Ms Elma Els	013 653 3110	Disability Coordinator	eMalahleni Campus
Ms Aletta Mmola	015 287 0753	Disability Coordinator	Polokwane Campus