The paper presents the results of a study of situational and personal anxiety among university students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic (Spring 2020). The study involved 35 students with disabilities from Russian State Social University aged 18—26 (21 men and 14 women). We used 2 questionnaires for measuring anxiety: Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. The results allowed us to make conclusions about the increased level of situational anxiety, as well as about pronounced personal anxiety in the studied category of students. The study has practical importance for the organization of psychological sup- port for students with disabilities at the university.

The purpose of the study is Assess the effectiveness of an activating model of vocational training at a university for persons with disabilities as competitive specialists. The developed model was implemented in a formative experiment that lasted from 2014 to 2018 – from the 1st to the 4th year of higher education programs in different training areas. The experimental group consisted of 18 inclusive student groups, where 416 students graduated in 2018, 71 were graduate students with disabilities. The proof of the effectiveness of the developed model is the fact that the percentage distribution of students with disabilities, who made up the experimental and control groups, according to the levels of their academic, practical, and personal readiness, significantly differed from each other by the end of the experiment. The variety of teaching methods, the alternation of traditional, standard methods with methods of activating cognitive activity, even without the use of special technical means, determine the success of memorizing educational and scientific information by persons with disabilities.