services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the uk experience...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Services for disabled students and employees in
five allied health professions: the UK experience
Colloque de l’AQICESHUniversité du Québec à Montréal
June 6th – 8th 2012Presenters: Jane Owen Hutchinson
and Karen AtkinsonAllied Health Professions Support Service
![Page 2: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Introductions
Jane Owen Hutchinson, Manager Allied Health Professions Support Service (AHPSS)
Karen Atkinson, Manager AHPSS Resource Centre, Senior Lecturer, University of East London
![Page 3: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Context
In the UK, disabled people: are half as likely as non-disabled people to be qualified to
degree level twice as likely as non-disabled people to have no qualifications continue to experience high rates of unemployment (50%
compared to 79%) In 2009 42.4% of disabled graduates were in full-time
employment compared with 46.2% of non-disabled graduates (AGCAS 2011)
This indicates that the role of higher education is vital in enabling disabled people to realise their potential in terms of employment
![Page 4: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
AHP Educational Context
Majority of programmes are 3 year BSc (Hons) degrees
Increasing number of accelerated 2 year Pre Registration MSc courses
Less part time opportunities Universities generally becoming more
inclusive
![Page 5: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Educational Context
Significant proportion of the education of health care professionals takes place in the clinical setting
Clinical placements – educational experiences very variable for all students
![Page 6: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
AHPSS
AHPSS supports disabled students and employees in the following professions throughout the UK: Dietetics Occupational Therapy Physiotherapy Podiatry Speech and Language Therapy
Significant barriers are still encountered
![Page 7: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
AHPSS Mission
Our mission is to challenge disability by delivering a service that promotes equality of opportunity by:
• empowering disabled healthcare students and employees to overcome the barriers they encounter within the educational and employment environments
• raising awareness of disability issues to support educators, clinicians and employers to promote best practice within education and employment settings
• enabling an inclusive approach to disabled health care students and employees
![Page 8: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
AHPSS
Unique
Authentic
Experience
ExpertiseReputation
Influence
Resources
![Page 9: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Our Resource Centre
![Page 10: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Resources
Funded by DH – has enabled us to provide essentially free services to all UK based clients Peripatetic Advice and guidance Employment preparation Advice on inclusive educational practice Staff training sessions - in HE and the clinical context One to one support for disabled AHP students and
employees Consultancy services to employers,
Professional/Voluntary Organisations and Disability Services Teams
![Page 11: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Research
Transition from HE to NHS for Visually Impaired Physiotherapists
Experiences of Physiotherapy Practice Educators: Supporting Disabled Students
![Page 12: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Barriers
Lack of awareness of disability issues Lack of awareness/availability of resources
and sources of support Stereotyping, discrimination, prejudice and
stigmatisation Fear and anxiety:
Staff don’t know what to do to support, don’t want to offend
Applicants think that if they disclose their disability they will not be successful
![Page 13: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Barriers: contributing factors
Inadequate communicationReluctance to discloseVariable student engagementFailure to implement reasonable
adjustmentsHuman and financial resourcesAttitudinal issues
![Page 14: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Inadequate communication
![Page 15: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Reluctance to disclose
“…disclosure’s not something I’m very good at especially
because a lot of people don’t believe me, and because I don’t look like I’ve got a disability...I
can get away with looking completely normal”
“I had to say ‘I’m visually impaired’…I hated it…it just used to grate on me every single time I said it because I thought why should I
have to tell it to somebody?”
![Page 16: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Variable student engagement
A student contacts and visits the clinical area
in advance and organises all necessary
adjustments
A student goes onto placement with no support and has issues
with time management, organisation and documentation
A student does not even consider himself to be disabled
![Page 17: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Failure to implement reasonable adjustments
“in terms of computer access I was limited
because I couldn’t read what was on the screen”
“what I had agreed with my tutor was that I was always going to be somewhere that was on a bus route or on a
train route - easily accessible. I don’t think they ever took that into consideration...”
“..I was told that there wasn’t any other assistant available…I’d have to go
it alone…and it was a case of oh well you’re just going
to have to cope”
![Page 18: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Human and financial resources
![Page 19: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Attitudinal issues
One clinical manager formally asked the
programme to stop recruiting disabled students as they
“could not be fit for practice”
“the best I got was I’ll get that done, I’ll do it sometime…so you
end up not getting a lot of information…this is incredibly frustrating”
“For no reason at all they said I
couldn’t walk around the school without
being accompanied…”
![Page 20: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
![Page 21: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Thank youAny Questions?
![Page 22: Services for disabled students and employees in five allied health professions: the UK experience Colloque de l’AQICESH Université du Québec à Montréal](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022070307/551acc875503466b6a8b525c/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Contact details
Jane Owen Hutchinson Manager, AHPSS Mobile: 07748 657457 Email: [email protected] Karen Atkinson Manager, AHPSS Resource Centre Tel: +00 44 208 223 4950 Mobile: 07918197995 Email: [email protected]