Assistive technology and equipment

The Technical support team within Disabilty Resources is responsible for the providiosn of alternative formatting of study materials fro students with a print disability. The team also manage the assistive technologies and equipment available at each of the campuses.

Alternative Formatting

The most commonly commonly requested alternatives are the provision of electronically formatted materials on CD. Students with print disabilities should discuss the supply of learning materials in other formats with Disability Resources staff as early as possible , but no later than 4 weeks prior to the start of semester. Requests can be made after this time, however we may not be able to guarantee that they will be available for week one of semester.

Assistive Technology and Equipment

Registered students with disabilties may request short term loans of specialist software/equipment such as voice recorder, text to speech recorders, AV transmitter/receiver, TTY phone and FM Hearing loops. Once the equipment has been trialled and assessed as appropriate to their needs, students can be provided with trainin to effectively use the assistive technology.

The technical support room is located at L212 (Toowoomba Campus). Students may only access the room when technical staff are available.

Assistive technology rooms

Toowoomba

The Assistive Technology Room (ATR) is located within the Toowoomba Campus Library

Assistive technology and specialised equipment is available to assist students with their studies, for example, voice activated software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking is available for students who have difficulty with typing.

What is available

• Electrically operated height adjustable tables
• Internal USQ telephone access #1210
• Computers are equipped with the following software:
  
  • Dragon Naturally Speaking V8.1 - speech recognition software.
  • WYNN - Literacy software and Zoom Text - screen magnification software.
  • JAWS - Screen reading software
  • Broad sheet CCTV
  • Network printer (student quotas apply)
  • ScannaR document reader
  • MyReader document text enlarger
• Headsets are issued by the Technical Coordinator

Requests and training

If appropriate to the student's disability, assistive technology and equipment is available to students through Disability Resources.  Training to use software and equipment will be provided.

Fraser Coast

The Assistive Technology Room is located at in the Learning Support Centre, A Block. An electrically operated height adjustable table and a dedicated computer for student with disabilities are available.  Software will be installed as requested by the Counsellor. 

Additionally USQ has installed a CCTV for use by students with a print disability in the municipal Library.

Springfield

A dedicated space for assistive technologies is available within the  Library at the Springfield campus (pdf 309k),   Equipment will be added as requested by the Counsellor.

Booking the facilities

Registered students must make a booking in order to use the University's technical support and resources.