With a view to a continuous process of improvement of the offer of services and support to users and in compliance with current regulations, Siena Jazz promotes the inclusion of students with disabilities and SLD – Specific Learning Disorder – in high musical training courses and in pre-academic ones.
The SLD, specific learning disorders, are dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia and the law to which reference is made is 170/2010 and Ministerial Decree no.5699. With regard to disability, the reference law is 104/1992 with the related additions introduced by 17/1999.
Under these laws, the right to study for students with disabilities at SLD is guaranteed until completion of the university process and it establishes that individualized and personalized teaching tools are reserved for them.
As required by law, Siena Jazz establishes the figure of the Delegate of the Director for Disability and SLD. The Delegate collaborates with the students and teachers of the school facilitating the inclusion of students, helping to implement measures that facilitate the educational path and the relationships between the parties. The Delegate also has a monitoring and observation function and can liaise with other bodies and structures involved in the implementation of the provisions of the regulations.
The inclusion of students with special needs is achieved with compensatory tools and dispensational measures in the performance of the teaching activity and in an appropriate manner during the exam.
“Compensatory tools” are defined by law as educational and technological tools that replace or facilitate the performance required in the deficient skill.
They are compensatory tools: conceptual schemes and maps, facilitated video writing programs, computer programs with speech synthesis.
“Dispensatory measures” are defined by law: interventions that allow “not to perform certain services that, due to the disorder, are particularly difficult and do not improve learning.
Hard admissions tests
Ministerial Decree 477/2017 and subsequent guidelines define the procedures for conducting admission tests to degree courses and the benefits granted to candidates with disabilities and ASD:
Additional time for the test. For the disabled up to 50% more only on specific request, for the SLD 30% more without the need for the request.
Additional compensatory tools due to the specific pathology or disorder:
A tutor and other possible aids are provided, such as diagrams and elevations or computers with specific applications. These tools must be agreed in advance with the Director’s Delegate and with teachers interested in the test. The teacher will inform the Examination Committee of what legal measures the student intends to use for the test and the Committee will record this in the examination report.
During their schooling and for the exams they will have to pass, disabled students have the right to:
– equivalent tests
– up to 50% more time in written tests
– assistants for autonomy and communication
– any technical devices according to availability and to be agreed in advance
– any specific subsidies made through agreements with specialised centres, where possible
SLD students are entitled to:
– evidence in oral rather than written form
– up to 30% more time or quantitative reduction
– evaluation that takes into account the contents rather than the form
Interested students, in order to take advantage of the services and facilities provided, must, at the time of their enrolment in the courses, submit to the secretariat of the institution the certification issued by the National Health System. This certification does not expire in general, but must be renewed every three years to adapt the functional profile of the student in its evolution. The secretariat attaches the certification to the student’s file and notifies the Director’s Delegate, who will inform the teachers and prepare the necessary measures.
For more information or to contact the Delegate, write to: claudio.palagini@sienajazz.it