Office for People with Disabilities
Assistance to persons with disabilities is provided by the Office for Persons with Disabilities and Disability Support Officers, acting on the basis of the Regulations for Supporting Persons with Disabilities at Bialystok University of Technology.
People with disabilities can apply for assistance in solving individual problems resulting from their disability; borrow equipment and specialised software.
In the reading room of the BUT Main Library and in the faculty libraries, special desks equipped with computer hardware and software have been set up to facilitate access to the book collection by visually impaired persons.
Members of the academic community can obtain free assistance from a psychologist, a psychological consultant for the educational process and an Employment Counsellor.
Bialystok University of Technology is a university with, for the most part, older buildings, which require adaptation to the needs of people with various disabilities. As far as technically and financially possible, the University is successively modernising the buildings and their surroundings so that they become more accessible for all users.
Bialystok University of Technology provides free access to an online Polish Sign Language interpreting service.
Bialystok University of Technology keeps increasing the number of places equipped for the hearing impaired, including induction loops in both lecture theatres and service areas.
Responsibilities of Disability Support Officers:
- providing advice to people with disabilities on matters related to their studies;
- providing ad hoc assistance in dealing with problems raised by people with disabilities;
- providing support to the administrative and teaching staff of the unit working with people with disabilities;
- informing people with disabilities about the possibilities of obtaining support from the University;
- cooperation with the Plenipotentiary for Persons with Disabilities and the Office for Persons with Disabilities;
- activating students with disabilities, inter alia, by encouraging them to participate in various forms of academic community life.
- services of an assistant for a person with disabilities;
- sign language interpreter services for deaf and hard of hearing persons;
- additional teaching of a foreign language taking into account specific needs resulting from disabilities;
- alternative forms of compulsory physical education classes adapted to the abilities of students with disabilities;
- additional supplementary (compensatory) classes taking into account specific needs resulting from disabilities;
- purchase, adaptation or development of didactic and academic materials in a form accessible to a person with disabilities;
- provision of specialised equipment and software to support the teaching/scientific process;
- adaptation of the form of knowledge verification to the needs resulting from the disability;
- financing the costs of participation in national and foreign training courses, conferences, sports activities, science and sports camps, Olympics or Paralympics, including transport and accommodation costs, which are increased due to disability;
- organisation of classes in classrooms with fitted assistive listening devices;
- provision of technological solutions to support the educational process;
- the opportunity to request permission to record learning activities for their own use;
- the possibility to receive teaching materials in a version adapted to individual needs resulting from disability.
The provision of support takes place at the request of the person concerned:
Appendix No. 1 (DOCX, 24 KB).
Along with the application, a disability certificate or current specialist medical documentation confirming the necessity of granting support shall be presented for review. A request for adaptation of the form of knowledge verification should be submitted to the Office for People with Disabilities no later than 3 weeks before the examination date.
Support in the form of recording classes and receiving teaching materials is connected with signing by the applicant of a statement of responsibility for the illegal provision of copyrighted materials: Appendix No. 6 (DOCX, 17 KB).
- services of an assistant for a person with disabilities;
- sign language interpreter services for deaf and hard of hearing persons;
- purchase, adaptation or development of didactic and academic materials in a form accessible to a person with disabilities;
- provision of specialised equipment and software to support the teaching/scientific process;
- covering extra costs of participation in national and international training courses, conferences, sports activities, science and sports camps, Olympics, Paralympics, including transport and accommodation costs increased due to a disability.
The provision of support takes place at the request of the person concerned:
Appendix No. 2 (DOCX, 23 KB).
Along with the application, a disability certificate or current specialist medical documentation confirming the necessity of granting support shall be presented for review.
Where the recruitment procedure involves an examination or interview, candidates with disabilities may request that the recruitment process be adapted to the needs arising from their disability.
The provision of support takes place at the request of the person concerned:
Appendix No. 3 (DOCX, 23 KB).
Along with the application, a disability certificate or current specialist medical documentation confirming the necessity of granting support shall be presented for review. A request for adaptation of the form of knowledge verification should be submitted to the Office for People with Disabilities no later than 3 weeks before the examination date.
room 39C
45A, Wiejska St
15-351 Bialystok
+48 85 746 91 42
wsparcie.bon [at] pb.edu.pl
Monday – Friday 8.00 -15.00.
Plenipotentiary – Tomasz Jastrzębski
t.jastrzebski [at] pb.edu.pl
+ 48 501 032 551