Progression: Disability Sample Clauses

Progression: Disability. UCS will invest £177,000 in disability and equality and diversity activities. These will include: • Specialist mental health adviser/s • Outreach disability clinics and investigation into the use of a SPLD screening tool to enhance the effectiveness of referral to diagnostic assessment • Ring fence money to enable students to access diagnostic learning assessments • Provision of one-to-one support for students • External disability training and professional updating • Specialist equipment and adaptations • Promotion of services UCS is committed to improving the experience of students with disabilities and continues to maintain the staffing resource in Student Support in recognition of the continuing need from students presenting with disabilities as the institution has grown. Students presenting with physical, learning and mental health disabilities can all access specialist advice and support and there is a well-established process for agreeing and supporting reasonable adjustments that is embraced and understood across the institution. Findings from retention data and student focus groups, shows that students with reasonable adjustments are less likely to withdraw and that students felt there should be greater promotion of services. Work will continue to develop ways to promote disability support and reasonable adjustments to prospective and current students. As described in section 2.5.1, the Disability and Wellbeing Team plan to expand learning opportunities, which will build on the existing workshops in self-esteem, communication and managing exam stress. There is a continued requirement to provide specialist support for students and training for staff as student need dictates. UCS is mindful of its duties and responsibilities under the Equality Act and allocates a proportion of additional fee income to specific measures designed to fulfil them. It has been recognised that monitoring and evaluating the impact of such measures on student recruitment, retention and success requires more resource. Following the announcement regarding reforms to DSAs the Disability and Wellbeing Team and DSA Working Group continue to review provision and resources to ensure the most vulnerable students that are affected by these changes are protected and to ensure that access to HE and the student experience for students with disabilities is commensurate to non-disabled students.
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Progression: Disability. The University of Suffolk will invest £247,000 in disability and equality and diversity activities. These will include: • Specialist mental health and Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) adviser/s and mentors • Outreach disability and support drop-ins • Ring fence money to enable students to access diagnostic learning assessments • Provision of one-to-one support for students • External disability training and professional updating • Specialist equipment and adaptations • Enhancement of disclosure strategies and promotion of services The University will also be expanding and replacing some of the current loan equipment, including Digital Voice Recorders, tablet devices and other appropriate technologies. The University of Suffolk acknowledges that reforms to Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) will impact students financially. To reduce the likelihood that such financial concerns would impact the relevant students’ success, we will introduce a scheme to meet the cost of the £200 contribution that DSA eligible students will no longer be able to claim for personal equipment. Alongside this, we will continue to monitor the reforms via a DSA Working Group. This group will identify actions and make recommendations regarding areas for development where the University can anticipate and support individual need, for example through investment in additional equipment, new technologies or expansion of e-resources. In addition, a programme of staff development will be maintained and expanded, focussing on enhancing staff understanding of disabilities and their impact on learning; developing strategies for supporting students and their individual needs; and the development of inclusive practices and support services for students with mild difficulties who may (under new DSA regulation) no longer be eligible for DSAs. The University of Suffolk is committed to the DSA Quality Assurance Framework and will work towards maintaining high standards of service provision, through providing specialist training for support staff working directly with students with disabilities and complex conditions. The University is committed to improving the experience of students with disabilities and continues to maintain the staffing resource in Student Services in recognition of the continuing need from students presenting with disabilities as the institution has grown. Students presenting with physical, learning and mental health disabilities can all access specialist advice and support a...
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Related to Progression: Disability

  • Total Disability (a) Total disability, as used in this Plan, means the complete inability because of an accident or sickness of a covered employee to perform all the duties of his/her own occupation for the first two (2) years of disability. Thereafter, employees able by reason of education, training or experience to perform the duties of a gainful occupation for which the rate of pay is not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the current rate of pay of their regular occupation at date of disability will not be considered totally disabled and will therefore not be eligible for benefits under this Long Term Disability Plan.

  • Duty Disability (1) For Calendar Year 2018, 2019, and 2020 Depending on the individual's single/family enrollment status, the cost of coverage for individuals receiving a duty disability retirement allowance shall be as provided in subsection 3.a.(1) of this Article, above.

  • Definition of Total Disability Total disability means that the employee is unable, because of sickness or accident, to perform the duties of their regular occupation. This definition applies for the first twenty-four (24) months of payments. After this time, the inability to perform an occupation for which the employee is reasonably fitted by training, education or experience will constitute total disability. It is not required that an employee be confined to home, but they must be under the regular care of a physician.

  • Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL) - An employee is eligible for continuation of MPS in accordance with applicable law.

  • Permanent Disability Permanent Disability" shall mean Employee's physical or mental incapacity to perform his or her usual duties with such condition likely to remain continuously and permanently as determined by Employer.

  • Illness or Disability If, because of Employee’s illness or other disability for a continuous period of more than 45 days, Employee is unable to render the services required by the Company as provided herein, the Company may terminate Employee’s employment hereunder by written notice to Employee at least 30 days in advance of such termination. Upon such termination Employee shall not be entitled to any further payments of any nature, except for payment of (a) any earned but unpaid Annual Base Salary, (b) any unpaid bonuses and (c) unreimbursed business expenses (collectively, “Payable Amounts”). All Payable Amounts shall become due and payable on the date of such termination.

  • Disability If, as a result of the Executive's incapacity due to physical or mental illness, the Executive shall have been absent from his duties with the Company on a full-time basis for six months and within 30 days after written notice of termination is thereafter given by the Company the Executive shall not have returned to the full-time performance of the Executive's duties, the Company may terminate this Agreement for "Disability."

  • Leave for Pregnancy Disability 10.6.1 Unit members are entitled to use sick leave as set forth in Sections 10.2.1, 10.2.2, and 10.2.3 for disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery therefrom on the same terms and conditions governing leaves of absence from other illness or medical disability. The length of such disability leave, including the date on which the leave shall commence and the date on which the duties are to be resumed, shall be determined by the unit member and the unit member's physician.

  • Long Term Disability The Employer agrees to provide Long Term Disability benefits for active full-time employees after fifty-two (52) weeks if an Employee is unable to perform any occupation (reasonably suited by means of training, education or experience). The Plan will provide for sixty-six and two thirds percent (66 2/3%) of an Employee's basic monthly earnings to a maximum of $1,500.00. Coverage would cease the date an Employee attains normal retirement age.

  • Short Term Disability The Employer agrees to provide Short Term Disability benefits to all active full-time employees from the first (1st) day of an accident or the first (1st) full-time day of hospitalized or the fourth (4th) day of sickness. The Plan will pay sixty-six and two thirds percent (66 2/3%) of basic earnings for the first two (2) weeks, then Unemployment Insurance will pay fifteen (15) weeks, then the Plan will resume payments for thirty-five (35 weeks).

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