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The aim is to sensitize, to cut uncertainness and the fear of contact in handling with people with disabilities. It  should be discussed and researched together with the students how looks like the inclusive future in view of a closly society and what requirements are necessary to become an inculsive society.  

Course of Sensitizing. How looks like the political correct wording of the different forms of disablilities? Teaching the terms of assignment and the basics by law. How to implement the UN-convention on the rights of persons with disabilities in Austria? What  forms of devices requires people with different impairments? How to use this forms of devices? In the course the students can try to use a wheelchair, a electric-wheelchair, utilities in Braille, a white cane,  an inductive hear loop, several glasses who simulate diverse illnesses of the eye. The students will get to know the every day life of people with disabilities. The head of the course - she also use a wheelchair - will talk about her every day life with the wheelchair.  The head of the course will also teache and informe about blindeness and restraints of vision, restraints of hearing, deafness, restraints of mobility, autism, learning difficulties, mental diseases…. The students will learn  important skills for the inclusive living together with people with disablities and with people without disabilities.

Methodes are: an academic lecture, teaching about the lastest researching findings, discussion.

The students will work on a self imposed subject area and will make a presentation of this self imposed subject area. - PS and SE

The students learn how to use different forms of devices.

The following paradigm shift, in connection with different models and approaches will be demonstrated and faced:

the medical model - the social cultural model:

orientation on deficits - orientation on potentials

to be disabled - to become disabled

the spare room theory - inclusive approach

A film about live und life in Innsbruck with different impairments will be shown.

PS: Presentation of a self-imposed subject area and a paper

UN-convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and further literature, who will be presented in form of a literature-list.

all students