Care Unit for People with Disabilities and Special Educational Needs

Services

• Physical, administrative and communication accessibility, linked to SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities).
• Teacher training in functional diversity (disability according to WHO criteria), linked to SDG 4 (quality education).
• Research and technological development, linked to SDG 4 (quality education).
• University Extension and Social Service: adapted sport, linked to SDG 3 (health and well-being).
• Advice for access, performance and maintenance of employment, linked to SDG 4 (quality education) and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth).
• Information, advice and support for students with special educational needs, linked to SDG 4 (quality education).
• Note taker, linked to SDG 4 (quality education).

Objectives

General:

•  Guarantee that any member of the university community has the adaptations, of any kind, necessary for the performance of their activity.

Specific:

• Achieve full integration and equality among students, thus guaranteeing an equal education.
• Encourage administration and service personnel with some type of diversity to carry out their work under equal conditions as the rest of their colleagues.
•  Make it possible for the teaching and research tasks of any PDI component with diversity to be implemented with the guarantees that ensure their full inclusion.

About Us

The procedure to follow is as follows:

• The user contacts the unit (via email or telephone) and requests their registration in it.
• Provide, among other things, the documents that prove the existence of a disability and/or special educational needs.
• A personalized interview is carried out.
• With the information obtained and taking into account your needs, an adaptation report is issued.
• In the case of students, this report is sent to the coordination of the corresponding grade, being sent from there to the teachers responsible for the subjects in which the student is enrolled.
• In the case of PAS, PDI or intern users, it would be sent to the corresponding service manager in each case.

Linked SDGs

Our work primarily addresses SDG 4 (quality education), but also addresses SDG 3 (health and well-being), 8 (decent work and economic growth) and 11 (sustainable cities and communities).

Who is it geared towards?

To all people with disabilities and/or special educational needs, SEN.

According to the WHO "disability” is an umbrella term that encompasses impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairments are problems that affect a bodily structure or function; activity limitations are difficulties performing actions or tasks, and participation restrictions are problems participating in life situations. It is, therefore, a complex phenomenon that reflects an interaction between the characteristics of the human organism and the characteristics of the society in which it lives.

People with "Special educational needs" are those that require specific attention derived from different degrees and personal abilities of a physical, mental, cognitive or sensory nature (for example, difficulties with reading and writing, attention deficit, etc.).

Regulations and documentation

• General Regulations in relation to the support service for students with disabilities at the Rey Juan Carlos University
• Guide to adaptations at the university (SAPDU Network)
• Activity report for the 2019-2020 academic year

Team and contact

Nuria Trugeda Pedrajo (unit director).

Naomi Calvo Matalobos

Raquel Albarran Sanchez

Phone: 91 488 85 66.

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