1. Ways to identify students with special needs

The ways to identify students with special needs are as follows:

a) Through the admission process for students with Special Criteria.

c) After being informed by teachers.

d) Information from External Agencies, Organizations, Charitable Foundations, Associations, etc.

e) On the initiative of the students with special needs themselves or their parents.

It is understood that all of the above is proven with relevant medical and other certificates/certificates.

2. Approach process

The seriousness and specificity of each problem determine the corresponding approach. The procedures followed by the Student Development Center are as follows:

a) Personal meeting and discussion of the problems with the student.

b) Recording personal information and securing medical certificates for the problem.

c) Record of the student's immediate needs.

d) Assessment of the needs and information of the student about the help and support that can be offered.

e) Informing the President of the Department and the student's Academic Support (after securing his/her own consent in writing). The Academic Support Officer of the Department informs all the student's teachers (for the role of the Academic Support Officer, see Subsection I).

3. Ways of support

The methods of support depend on the particularities of each student and are determined under the responsibility of the Student Development Center, depending on the financial capabilities of the University and according to the following actions:

3.1 Individual psychological support

• Completion of History of individual data and requests of students.
• Interview to investigate and evaluate the request
• Number of Therapeutic Meetings
• Possible collaboration with family/department if required
• Possible collaboration with external experts if required
• Cooperation/updating the Department and teachers

3.2 Facilitation in examinations

• Inform the Office of Studies so that there are no final exams for two or more courses on the same day.
• An extension of 30 minutes is given for final and midterm exams.
• Special layout of the examination area, comfortable and quiet environment, without noise and with a comfortable temperature. The person who will coordinate the examination should be knowledgeable and sensitive to the particularity of the case.
• Spelling errors should not be taken into account in the case of a person with hearing/dyslexia/dyslexia/dyspelling and for other learning difficulties or medical problems to be assessed. Simplifying vocabulary where possible, explaining a difficult word without prescribing the answer for people with learning difficulties or a hearing problem.
• Oral exams (depending on the case) in the case of severe disability of the upper limbs or vision or serious learning problems that justify the oral exam, provided that the student had the same facility during his studies at the Lyceum and/or in the Pan-Cypriot Examinations. It is necessary to present a medical certificate and report. For serious medical/learning problems that may have arisen after High School or the All-Cypriot Examinations, it is necessary to present a medical certificate and a report.
• Exams with a transcriber (a person to whom the student will dictate the answers). Simultaneous recording of the examination. For students with a severe disability of the upper limbs, or vision, or a severe form of dysgraphia or other serious medical/learning problem that justifies the use of a transcriber as the sole mode of examination. In order for the student to be entitled to this facility due to learning difficulties (e.g. dysgraphia), he must have had the corresponding facility either in High School or in the All-Cypriot Examinations and the relevant certificate must be presented to the Student Development Center. For serious medical/learning problems that may have arisen after the Lyceum or the Pancypriot Examinations, it is necessary to present a medical certificate and report.
• Exams on a controlled computer (depending on the case).
• Differentiated writing in the form of multiple choice, definition-answer matching, sentence completion where possible. For students moderate medical problem. It is necessary to present a medical certificate and report.
• Individual examination at the Student Development Center for differentiated examinations (e.g. with transcriber). In order for such accommodations to be made, the student must submit to the Student Development Center a documented report from a physician or other specialist in which it is expressly stated that the student for specific reasons needs special accommodations. The exam will take place during business hours and days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8:30-15:00 and Wednesday 8:30-14:30, 15:00-18:00). The supervision of the examination is undertaken financially by the Student Development Center which will work with a postgraduate student or VET or UE partner of the Student Development Center or a person indicated by the respective course manager If a transcriber is required, he or she is an undergraduate or postgraduate student or VET or UE a partner of the Student Development Center or a person who will be indicated by the person in charge of the course. The transcriber or the invigilator of the exam do not have knowledge of the exam material. The paper will be delivered to the proctor of the exam from the Student Development Center 15 minutes before the exam, and will be returned by the proctor to the Student Development Center at the end of the exam.

3.3 Course Attendance

• Taking class notes on a laptop computer.
• Right to record the lesson.
• Access to texts and teaching notes either through written texts, online or otherwise.

3.4 Tutorial Support

• Tutoring support is available to students with learning problems, students with psychiatric problems and students with medical problems which, due to pathological symptoms, prevent the smooth learning process and/or the medication they receive for a serious medical problem prevents the smooth learning process. Medical certificates, reports and supporting documents are required.
• The offer of tutoring support is arranged at the student's request to the Student Development Center, which decides whether it is justified.
• Requests for tutoring support are submitted in writing by the end of the 2nd week of each semester, so that students have a first participation in the courses and judge whether they need support.
• In a semester, a student with special needs can have tutoring support in up to three (3) courses. On a case-by-case basis, with the decision of the Student Development Center and validation by the Head of the Studies and Student Care Service, support can be given to a student for more than 3 courses. The hours of tutoring support in one course cannot exceed 8 (eight) in a month. Each tutoring support meeting lasts one hour. Hours from one month cannot be transferred to another month.
• Tutoring support is offered exclusively and only in the rooms of the Student Development Center or in rooms of the University determined by the Student Development Center. 
• The same course can be provided by different partners of the Student Development Center, in an individual or group format, depending on the available hours of the partner and depending on the medical condition or learning difficulty of the supported student.

3.5 Provision of special equipment

• The Student Development Center can purchase and grant (lend) specialized equipment that is deemed necessary for the smooth study of people with special needs and that cannot be secured by competent state agencies or other agencies.
• Equipment is billed to the student and returned, regardless of condition, to the Student Development Center upon completion of the student's studies.

3.6 Escort for movements

• Depending on the special needs of each student, the necessary escort is offered to facilitate their movement.
• Finding a chaperone can be done by the Student Development Center and the chaperone is paid through the University or the University gives the same amount of money to the disabled student and he/she pays the chaperone. In the event that the chaperone has been selected and paid by the student, no contract is prepared by the University, while the accompanied student provides proof of payment of the chaperone every month.
• The student's companion is responsible for transporting the student to and from the courses in which the student is enrolled and to the tutoring courses that take place at the Student Development Center if these take place at times when the student is already at the University for the rest of his courses . If the Department's courses have a large time difference with the tutoring courses, then the chaperone is not responsible for accompanying the student.
• The chaperone has no obligation to provide assistance for feeding the disabled student, or to provide the student with medication he is receiving, or for defecation (toilet) needs, or for transportation to entertainment venues. Students with increased needs beyond simple escorting to and from the classrooms may be given the amount of money monthly and will be responsible for finding and assigning specific tasks to their own escort.

3.7 Translations of texts

• In collaboration with the University Library and the Departments, enlargements and translations of texts for the needs of visually impaired students.

3.8 Transcriber in exams

• Employing people as transcribers in mid-term and final exams for eligible students (see also 2.3.2 above)

3.9 Other forms of support that may arise

4. Communication with students and parents of students

• The Student Development Center seeks for all students to feel the necessary familiarity and self-confidence in order to communicate and discuss directly any problems that concern them. Parents of students with special needs, especially when it comes to serious health problems, can have communication and meetings with the Student Development Center, provided that this is the desire of the student as well.
• The Center for Student Development and the Service of Studies and Student Welfare observe the rules of confidentiality and privacy for everything that concerns the academic life cycle of each student.
• Confidentiality is not respected in cases where a student is in immediate danger or in cases where other people are in immediate danger from the student. In such cases, the student's parents can be informed either by the Student Development Center or by other offices of the Studies and Student Care Service or by the Departments.

5. Application of relevant legislation

In addition to the above, the University complies with the legislations concerning the disabled.