Students with special needs

TUKE provides applicants and students with specific needs with counselling and effective support in securing access within the admissions process and throughout their studies through a wide range of support services and measures.

• with sensory, physical and multiple disabilities - e.g. a student who is blind, deaf, visually impaired, hard of hearing, with disabilities of the upper/lower limbs, etc.,
• with a chronic disease - e.g. diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, etc.,
• with health impairment - e.g. scoliosis, allergy, condition after surgery,
• with a mental disorder – e.g. anxiety disorders (obsessive-compulsive disorder,...), affective disorders (depression, bipolar disorder,...), etc.,
• with autism or other pervasive developmental disorders – e.g. Asperger's syndrome, etc.
• with learning disabilities – e.g. dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia.
• It is necessary to apply for the status of a student with specific needs at the TUKE Access Centre, where the student:
• provides informed consent, which is part of the entrance questionnaire,
• delivers a confirmation of the disability that is
  • a medical certificate not older than three months, which is mainly a medical report, a report on the course and development of the disease and disability or an extract from the medical documentation, or
  • the statement of a psychologist, speech therapist, school psychologist, school speech therapist or special pedagogue.
• Based on the evaluation of specific needs, a Recommendation for making studies accessible and granting the status of a student with specific needs is prepared, which is approved by the vice dean for education and is available to the student and the faculty coordinator for students with specific needs.

• E-mail: alena.galajdova@tuke.sk  
• Telephone: +421 55 602 2377