Study barrier-free

First of all, find out which examination requirements are placed on you in which module in your degree programme. To do this, you should check the module handbook and/or the study and examination regulations for your degree programme to find out which type of examination is required for which module. If it is not clear to you whether the respective examination form poses a difficulty for you due to your limitations, I would recommend that you talk to the respective examiner or the student counselling service.

If you expect difficulties in taking individual examinations due to your impairment(s), you can apply for compensation for disadvantages in the attached application form. In the personal justification of your application for compensation for disadvantages, you should be specific enough about your impairment(s) to make it plausible for the examination board that you have barriers to taking the planned examinations and what these barriers are. You must also provide evidence of the impairment(s) on the basis of medical or therapeutic certificates.

You should also apply for specific measures to compensate for your disadvantage and specify which examination(s) in which module(s) are involved. The possibilities for compensating for disadvant ages are manifold, see the description on the website of the Deutsches Studentenwerk. It is important that the measure is suitable and necessary in the individual case to compensate for your individual disadvantage. It would be helpful if the medical or therapeutic certificate(s) submitted contained recommendations as to how your disadvantage(s) could be compensated for from a medical/therapeutic point of view. However, the decision-making authority lies with the examination board, which must also take into account in its decision that the measure to compensate for your disadvantage does not at the same time violate the equal opportunities of the other candidates in accordance with Article 3 of the German Basic Law.

You can then send the completed application together with the evidence of your impairment to me either by post or - waiving postal secrecy - by email together with the scanned evidence and the completed declaration of consent to data processing on the attached form (see Section 2 (5) of the Framework Regulations). I will then forward the application with a statement to the responsible examination board. However, this is only possible with the completed declaration of consent, without which I am not allowed to save your data. In order to be able to forward your application together with my statement to the examination board of your department, I also require a release from the duty of confidentiality and therefore ask that you tick the appropriate box in the declaration of consent. Otherwise your application may not be forwarded.

I will address this in my statement,

• whether, in my opinion, an impairment has been comprehensibly explained in the personal statement and documented with corresponding certificates, findings or attestations,
• whether a disability is comprehensible due to the barriers of the study programme or the specific examination and
• whether the measures applied for or which measures are suitable to compensate for this disability.

Your certificates and findings enclosed as supporting documents will remain confidential and I will only include in my statement what is directly relevant to the three topics mentioned above. 
 

The examination board will then discuss your application and inform you directly of its decision. If the examination board believes that something is still missing, e.g. a medical certificate or similar, it will inform you and ask you to submit it.