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Module 4 - Management

Administrative Staff Learning Path

10.3. Learning objects/practical activities
Module 4 discusses the various strategies, at the management level, that could foster the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities within the university. Paragraph 10, focuses on University Policies.

Duration: 45 minutes for each activities

Learning objectives for the administrators:

  • ensuring that every teacher knows the regulations of inclusion and the tools to implement them;

  • create and ensure the conditions for all students to participate in academic life and to undertake paths of self-assessment and quality improvement of the inclusive actions taken;

  • intercept the needs of students with neurodiversity through the bio-psycho-social perspective of the ICF and acquire skills to define profiles of functioning;

  • design pathways that, in line with the principles of reasonable accommodation, are able to make academic knowledge accessible in relation to individual neurodiversity needs;

  • knowing how to design and activate tools for dissemination and information of actions taken both internally within the academic environment and externally;

  • knowing how to manage the physical spaces of academic facilities in an inclusive manner so that everyone feels they belong as a welcoming and accessible place beyond individual functioning characteristics;

  • knowing how to organize the times of academic life from the perspective of sustainability, capable of intercepting all the needs of the students who inhabit the University;

  • identifying and employing useful strategies to make the academic environment cognitively accessible through the adoption of functional forms of communication.


In order to reinforce your knowledge, we propose the following activities:
Activity 1: Based on the concepts discussed in Chapter 10, make a concept map in which all the concepts discussed and the relationship between them are clearly identified.
Activity 2: Make an example of a podcast for the presentation of university application procedures tailored to the needs of students with intellectual disabilities.