Making your CU Accessible to Disabled Students

There are 230,000 disabled students at UK universities. Christian Unions aim to give every student a chance to hear and respond to the good news of Jesus, and are often a place where all students can find friendship and support. So how can your CU be an inclusive space for students with specific disabilities?

Click through for some specific ideas and advice, specially produced for CUs, by Ros Bayes from Through the Roof, a Christian disability charity.  To read these articles in full, and other articles on including disabled students, download the student version of Through the Roof's publication Be a Roofbreaker for just £3.

What do I say?

Read our CU guide to inclusive language.

Specific advice

• There's a dyslexic student in my CU
• There's a facially disfigured student in my CU
• There's a student with speech difficulty in my CU
• There's an allergic student in my CU
• There's a deaf student in my CU
• There's a student with Tourette's Syndrome in my CU
• There's a blind student in my CU
• There's a diabetic student in my CU
• There's a student with epilepsy in my CU
• There's a wheelchair user in my CU
• There's an autistic student in my CU
• There's a student with a mental health problem in my CU