Engendering a conducive environment for university students with physical disabilities: assessing availability of assistive facilities in Nigeria

Abstract

Assistive facilities for SWD on campus are limited. More assistive facilities need to be provided alongside increased awareness about these facilities and a disability register should be open for students on campus. Assistive facilities to aid learning and make SWD more comfortable are required. Implications for Rehabilitation Universities should have an official policy on students with disabilities and implement it, such a policy should address special considerations for disabled students, such as having an updated register for students with disability, having examination questions in large fonts for students with visual disabilities, giving them extra time for examinations and providing special counselling services for students with disabilities. Awareness about assistive facilities in tertiary institutions for students with disability should be increased so that they can utilize the ones available and demand for such if non-existent. The design of buildings on university campus should be made disability friendly. A disability register should be open for SWD on campus.

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