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To connect with students

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Understand about the needs better

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Understanding the challenges associated

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Create an inclusive environment

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To offer aids if needed.

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to understand their needs and make their halls experience better

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To be able to react appropriately to issues as they arise

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To accommodate students as best as we can

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So that we can validate and support students of all forms of disabilities - in signposting them to support as well as accommodating their disability whenever we engage with them ourselves

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Disabled people are all around us. We need to be sensitive to their needs.

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To do our job properly taking into account individual needs and adjustments

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To do our job properly taking into account individual needs and adjustments

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To be respectful and warm

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Ensure everyone can be part of community 

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Ensure everyone can be part of community 

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To be inclusive and set a good model

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To know there’s no one single correct approach to a specific issue students deal with

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Students have different access requirements and learning needs

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To be able to provide students with proper support

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To meet every student need and foster a sense of belonging

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To understand their needs

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To support them with their specific needs

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Some students will have visible/ hidden disabilities, and to ensure the hall community is inclusive we need to have an understanding of those disabilities for access needs etc.

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We may deal with disabled individuals so it’s important to have an awareness of various disabilities such that we may be able to accommodate and help those individuals

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It may inform the mental health conversations we have with students in ways that we may not realise if we do not understand disability

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So that they don’t have to ask

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To create a positive and supportive environment in our halls 

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To create a positive and supportive environment in our halls 

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Many of those living within my halls of residence will be living with disabilities, both physical and mental. Understanding how best to support people living with a wide array of disabilities with upmost sensitivity, ensures a good student experience when living in halls

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Make our events accessible

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To humanise and recognise intersectionality

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Some of the students we work with may identify as disabled!

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To work better with our SRA team members who may have specific needs 

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To work better with our SRA team members who may have specific needs 

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Enable everyone to feel included

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Prepare ourselves better for our role

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At one point or another, everyone will be affected by disability, whether by old age, chronic or minor illness, emotional crises, etc. Accessibility benefits everyone.

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So that we can most appropriately and effectively meet the needs of all students 

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So that we can most appropriately and effectively meet the needs of all students 

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UCL as a public institution needs to provide accommodations to people with different abilities

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I think that understanding disability is important for our role as we need to both recognise and have knowledge of the specific challenges individuals face in order to appropriately safeguard them

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Student wellbeing and support must extend to all students, and understanding dis/Ability helps us cater to a large group of people we’d otherwise risk overlooking

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To make suitable adjustments so that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else without the added physical or mental barriers that may exist for them

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To understand how to help if and when possible, or who to direct the students to.

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If our goal is to be inclusive and capable of best serving people of all backgrounds, it’s paramount that we acknowledge that the world has been constructed and continually re-structured around various lived experiences that are not universally representative. With that said, people have been left behind when it comes to having had their different needs accounted for and accommodated.

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Fear of exclusion

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Stigma

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stigma

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Worries they will be judged or treated differently 

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Worries they will be judged or treated differently 

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Not knowing where to declare it / who to speak to

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Anxiety surrounding stigma

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No expectation of adequate support

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Feeling like nothing can be done to help them

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Cultural barriers / different perspectives on disabilities

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Cultural barriers / different perspectives on disabilities

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inability to physically access their room or accessible bathrooms, common rooms etc

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Don’t want to feel different / like a burden

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Infantilisation

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Resources are not accessible to people with their particular disability

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Resources are not accessible to people with their particular disability

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Fear of being seen as not good enough or inadequate 

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Fear of being seen as not good enough or inadequate 

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Cultural barriers. Being treated differently 

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Cultural barriers. Being treated differently 

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don’t want people to treat them differently 

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don’t want people to treat them differently 

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Lack of a diagnosis / information around their condition

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Fears around tapping into that vulnerability 

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Fears around tapping into that vulnerability 

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Social stigma surrounding disabilities. E.g. schizophrenia

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Long wait times for resolutions

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The disability itself may be a barrier in communication 

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The disability itself may be a barrier in communication 

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Lacking a support network to seek advice from

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Not knowing the language to talk about their disability

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Not knowing the language to talk about their disability

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Ways to actually declare disability e.g. typing may be difficult.

Other tech barriers e.g. word count

Not knowing what resources are available

Already facing extra work due to barriers around moving in and other associated life shifts

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Incorrect interpretation of behaviour eg. Seeming rude due to struggling social situations

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Attracting extra attention / standing out just like this sticker does due to its color, which may be overwhelming

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Attracting extra attention / standing out just like this sticker does due to its color, which may be overwhelming

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Reluctance to be identified by disability

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not being aware they face a barrier

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Cultural differences

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Mental health issues like depression or anxiety causing the person to withdraw as opposed to disclose 

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Mental health issues like depression or anxiety causing the person to withdraw as opposed to disclose 

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Lack awareness regarding their rights and resources available

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Having been ‘let down’ in relation to disability in the past so feels like there’s no point in disclosing 

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Having been ‘let down’ in relation to disability in the past so feels like there’s no point in disclosing 

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Parents/Guardians do not want to reveal and wish the kid to have a new start.