Northtec Disability Support Services
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NorthTec Student Disabilities Advisor Hamish McCallum presenting to Whangarei Disability Sector Reference Group meeting. |
NorthTec is firmly committed to providing equity in education and welcomes students with a disability.
"Disability" is a very broad term which includes people experiencing a wide range of barriers to their learning, due to impairment, including:
- Physical impairment
- Medical condition
- Sensory impairment
- Mental health problems
- Learning disabilities
My name is Hamish McCallum and I am the NorthTec Student Disability Advisor.
If you have a disability, or impairment, I can arrange to meet with you and to assess your needs (please make an appointment, as I am sometimes working at other NorthTec campuses).
You can contact me, to arrange an appointment, by:
My hours are 8.30am to 2.30pm Monday to Thursday.
My office is at the Raumanga campus, in A Block, on the ground floor, behind the registry.
I can liaise with your tutors to ensure that we can best support you in your study. I can also assist students with disabilities by arranging appropriate, disability-related study support services and specialist resources such as:
- Assistive technology (eg, Digital voice recorders, and visually enlarging software, large screens, magnifying sheets, and adaptive keyboards)
- Adaptations /furniture (eg, appropriate seating, access around campus)
- Special arrangements for assessments and exams (eg, extra time, separate room, reader/writer)
- Practical support (eg, interpreters/communicators, notetakers)
- Liaison with community support agencies
- Funding for vision, hearing, & for medical assessments
If I have not mentioned the support that you require, I will do my best to arrange it!
I am part of the Student Success team. In this team we also have:
If another member in our team is better suited to assist you, I can refer you to them.
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Student Profile
 Mhairi Collins
Mhairi is a student in the Bachelor of Social Services Degree Programme at NorthTec. She is also the author of No Going Back, a true story of her journey to recovery from a traumatic brain injury. This book can be borrowed from the NorthTec library.
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