Consideration before and after admission to the University

Table of contents

Guide at the time of admission
Support at the time of admission
1. Support at the admission ceremony
2. Support at orientation

Guide at the time of admission

At the beginning of April, the new students with disabilities and their families, each educational organization and the related faculties, staff of the center that relate to general course work come together with OSD staffs and faculties to provide guidance every year at the time of admission to the University.

General guidance
- Explaining the outlines of the support for students with disabilities at University of Tsukuba
- Facts concerning registration for general courses (foreign language, sport and physical education and information technology)
- Support at the admission ceremony
Introducing the members of the educational organizations
- Participant self-introduction
- Assessing the individual needs and support components
Individual consultation
- Individual consultation on the process of registration for the general courses
- Individual consultation with the support team and specialist faculties of OSD
- Assessing the required adjustments while taking classes, such as request for prior distribution of reading materials for visually impaired students and adjustments regarding wheelchair users

*When entrance into the University of Tsukuba is determined earlier for students via recommendation, prior individual consultation of support provisions and discussion regarding the necessary adjustments are also available.
*In the case of graduate students, the academic supervisor will take the lead and correspond individually, however if there are some difficulties (such as there is no prior familiarity with such type of disability), OSD will correspond and offer support according to the type and the degree of disability.