Teiresias Centre, Masaryk University

The Teiresias Centre of Masaryk University

Since 2000, the Support Centre for Students with Special Needs at Masaryk University has been ensuring that study programmes accredited at MU are to the greatest possible extent accessible to students with sensory or motion disability, with specific learning disorders and with other difficulties.

The Teiresias Centre

• is an educational centre with a variety of instruction – its courses supplement or substitute regular tuition and/or lifelong education courses; all courses take place on Masaryk University premises assigned to students with disabilities; lifelong education course participants have access to the same technological equipment and study materials as fulltime university students

• has its student administration unit to support the study organization of students with disabilities

• offers counselling and methodological support to high school students and teachers

• is a research institution developing its technological solutions

• collaborates with national institutions (Scio, CERMAT) on modifications of study materials and tests for students with disabilities

• publishes in Braille and runs a national digital university library

• runs an interpreting and speech-to-text reporting centre

• runs a personal assistance dispatch centre.

The Theseus Project

The Theseus project aims to improve the accessibility of the digital environment and to enable people to work in this environment with information on websites, applications and documents in a way that minimises the barriers they have to overcome.

Masaryk University is a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals.