About Us

Özyeğin University provides support services for people with disabilities through its Disabled Students Unit, including personal assistants, classroom and exam accommodations, accessible course materials, assistive technology and psychological support. All services are free of charge to students and funded by the University.

• Personal assistants: Students with disabilities who request support are assigned trained part-time student assistants, employed and paid by the University, who act as personal assistants (organising lecture notes, studying together, access to otherwise inaccessible resources; up to 15 hours a week and 60 hours a month per student).
• Sign language and captioning: Captioning is provided for lecture videos for students with hearing impairments, and sign language training is offered to administrative staff and students.
• Classroom and exam accommodations: extra time of more than 15% and up to 30% depending on the medical report and the exam, separate exam room, reader/marker, enlarged (A3) exam papers, computer-based exams, adapted listening and speaking components.
• Accessible materials and assistive technology: textbooks and course materials scanned for use with screen readers, image descriptions, computers, headphones and voice recorders.
• Psychological support and workshops: one-to-one sessions with the Unit's specialist; art therapy and drama workshops.

In 2025: the Disabled Students Unit directly supported 11 students with disabilities; part-time student assistants provided 215 hours of personal assistant support; 9 course materials were converted into accessible formats; and 1 disability awareness and accessibility event was held: during the World Day of Persons with Disabilities Awareness Week (1–5 December 2025), organised with the Duyarlı ÖzÜ volunteering programme, the University ran an awareness stand, a Braille writing workshop, a workshop on communicating with people with disabilities and basic sign language, a talk on disability rights and workplace accessibility, and a special Radio ÖzÜ broadcast.