Special needs
Students who are dyslexic, suffer from a chronical or mental illness, or have other diagnoses that may affect their lives in a study situation can be offered special needs assistance. Academic requirements cannot be lowered, but we can look for other solutions to your challenges. We are working actively to facilitate education opportunities for students with special needs.
Each case is considered individually, to ensure as suitable solutions as possible. It is important that you document your challenges, but also that you share with us previous experiences and support you have been offered. Helping students with special needs spans from teaching aids, group work, practical issues, increased examination time etc.
Contact Student Service if you have any questions regarding adaptation for your day-to-day study situation.
Special teaching arrangements - how?
First of all, you must tell us about the need for special teaching arrangements, and bring with you what you have of documentation. Contact the Student Service Office or the Student Adviser, and we will talk about further action, in accordance with your wishes.
There are various requirements in the course of studies, and it is useful to talk with someone from the academic community. We often therefore start with a meeting where someone from the academic community participates. Others that may be required to meet us are the counsellor from the Student Welfare Organisation, or someone from the exam office.
We are bound by confidentiality regarding everything you tell us.
Academic requirements cannot be lowered, but we can look for solutions related to teaching, exercises and work requirements, practice and examinations.
Examples of measures that may be applicable:
- Additional time and / or use of PC at the exam
- Extended deadlines for course work requirements
- Measures linked to teaching, in collaboration with the lecturer
- Help to apply for audiobooks or auto correcting/dictionary programme in Norwegian (LingDys)
- Examination for dyslexia or cognitive diagnosis
- Referral to a psychologist
- Access to the library via elevator – send an email to eigedom@hivolda.no
Aid with special teaching arrangements
Audiobooks from NLB - Norsk lyd- og blindeskrift bibliotek
NLB is a national library, with audio books and curriculum printed in Braille. Any student who has a diagnosis that affects reading skills, concentration or the like has the right to borrow from NLB. This may include impaired vision, dyslexia, ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, etc. This must be documented by a professional - read more on NLB's website for borrowers.
Contact the counsellor at the Student Welfare Organisation or a librarian at the library, if you need help to apply for borrowing rights at NLB.
Aid
Hjelpemiddelsentralen offers an online dictionary/auto correcting programme (LingDys), which can help many of those who have reading and writing difficulties. If you need it, you can apply for this computer programme and other types of aid. You can also get help to apply for this by contacting the Student Welfare Organisation counsellor.
Measures from NAV
Nav has different types of aid, but most of them are only given to students who get their education through initiatives supported financially by grants from NAV.
Special examination arrangements
Read more about Special examination arrangements here.
Do you need something that is not mentioned above? Do contact us and we will see what we can do.
Special examination arrangement
Read more about Special examination arrangement here.
Please contact Student Service if you have further questions.
Didn't find what you were looking for?
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+47 70 07 50 18 | studentsorvis@hivolda.no
or stop by during our opening hours:
- Monday, from 9.30 - 15.00
- Tuesday to Friday: 9.00 - 15.00