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Ieva Danilevi čienė

Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university  Case. Ieva Danilevi čienė. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university Case Ieva Danilevičienė.

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Ieva Danilevi čienė

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  1. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university  Case Ieva Danilevičienė

  2. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university Case Ieva Danilevičienė The Number of Students with Disabilities in Universities in Lithuania

  3. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university Case Ieva Danilevičienė The Number of Students with Disabilities in Universities in Lithuania • The study showed that the number of students with disabilities in Lithuania is directly related to the total number of students, i.e. when overall number of students is decreasing, the number of students with disabilities is decreasing too.

  4. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university Case Ieva Danilevičienė LegalFrameworkofLithuaniaProvides: • The right for the people with disabilities to get an education • specific financial aid for ones with 45% of capacity • the ability to be exempt from the maturity exams because of the disease, by equating annual subjects’ grades to these tests results, i.e. an opportunity to go to university, even with very severe disabilities. • In 2010 in Lithuania the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was ratified.

  5. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university Case Ieva Danilevičienė Vytautas Magnus University Case • We can be proud that VMU is the first of Lithuanian high schools which began to take care of the integration of persons with disabilities into society through the higher education program and so far is known as disability-friendly university (other universities did not have the initiative).

  6. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university Case Ieva Danilevičienė The Number of Students with Disabilities in Universities in Lithuania

  7. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus university Case Ieva Danilevičienė Vytautas Magnus University Case • VMU integration of people with disabilities in higher education is moving from 1992. • When organizing the process of study we use the idea that the participation of people's with disabilities contribution significantly contributes to the changes in the organization of the study process occurrence(Thebeginningyouneed to formbyyourself!, doc. dr. RūtaRuolytė-Vershoore)

  8. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus universityCase Ieva Danilevičienė Vytautas Magnus University Case Forexample: • VMU administrationperiodicallyorganizesmeetingswith VMU studentswithdisabilities • Anew staff member at Vytautas Magnus University – Disability Coordinator. (function - activities related to students with disabilities studying at the University, coordination, academic disabilities inclusion programmeaccomplishment)

  9. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus universityCase Ieva Danilevičienė Elvina‘s Case ...„I’m very happy that VMU has provided the opportunity for me to study, because it helps me feel like a complete person and live a normal life. I understand that my studies are no less of a challenge to the lecturers than they are to me: some find it easy to meet, others struggle, but, in spite of all the hardships, the studies are an invaluable gift which has opened up the widest horizons for me, enriched me intellectually and spiritually, and introduced me to many wonderful and great personalities“

  10. Successful Collaboration of Students with Disabilities and Administration: Vytautas Magnus universityCase Ieva Danilevičienė Thank you for your attention and being here! Moreinformation: Ms.IevaDanilevičienė K. Donelaičio g. 52, Room 115, LT-44244 Kaunas Mobile phone +37068744186 E-mail I.Danileviciene@srt.vdu.lt www.vdu.lt/disability

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