Status quo of inclusive access to higher education. A focus on deaf and hearing-impaired individuals in German-speaking Switzerland

Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa; Näf, Manuela; Rodriguez Vazquez, Silvia; Bouillon, Pierrette; Strasly, Irene

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Status quo of inclusive access to higher education. A focus on deaf and hearing-impaired individuals in German-speaking Switzerland

ContributorsHohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa; Näf, Manuela; Rodriguez Vazquez, Silvia

; Bouillon, Pierrette

; Strasly, Irene

Published inProceedings of the 2nd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication: Accessibility in educational settings (BFC 2018), Editors Bouillon, P., Rodríguez Vázquez, S. & Strasly, I., p. 47-50

Presented at Geneva (Switzerland), 9-10 November 2018

Publication date2018

Abstract

As numbers of graduates with impairments are actually decreasing, higher education access and study conditions are in need of improvement for students with sensory impairments in Switzerland. A survey was carried out in order to determine the status quo in higher education for Swiss deaf, blind, visually and hearing-impaired individuals. The current paper presents the survey, discusses methodological and technical issues and points out preliminary results concerning Swiss-German deaf and hearing-impaired individuals.

Keywords

accessibility
higher education
Switzerland
inclusive education
visually-impaired
hearing-impaired
survey

Affiliation

Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traitement informatique multilingue

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HOHENSTEIN, Christiane et al. Status quo of inclusive access to higher education. A focus on deaf and hearing-impaired individuals in German-speaking Switzerland. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication: Accessibility in educational settings (BFC 2018). Geneva (Switzerland). [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2018. p. 47–50.

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