Inclusive Education Support

RTU MIREA operates the Inclusive Education Support Department.
Address: 78 Vernadsky Ave, Block A, Office 172
Head of the Department: Turkestanov-Dumin Fedor Stanislavovich
Phone: +7 (499) 600-80-80 ext. 21089

Its objective is to create an environment ensuring inclusive higher education for students with disabilities and health limitations.
The department’s work focuses on establishing special conditions for the inclusive learning of students with disabilities and health limitations.

The Inclusive Education Support Department’s key tasks are:
- Developing regulations and science-based methodological support for forming and advancing inclusive education of students with disabilities and health limitations.
- Maintaining specialized records of students with health limitations and disabilities during their admission, study, and employment stages.
- Providing comprehensive support for the inclusive education of students with health limitations at the university.
- Organizing additional training for faculty to enhance their knowledge of the psychophysiological features of persons with disabilities and health limitations, the specifics of educational information transfer, and use of special technical learning aids relevant to various health impairments.
- Participating in developing and implementing career guidance activities for applicants with disabilities and health limitations.
- Contributing to creating a barrier-free architectural environment at the university and to the organization of their learning process.
- Fostering collaboration with university units, other higher education institutions, non-governmental organizations and other entities and agencies of the city of Moscow to implement inclusive learning and support for students with disabilities and health limitations.

In accordance with Order No. 1135 of the Ministry of Education and Science, dated September 5, 2016, RTU MIREA signed a cooperation agreement with the Training and Guidance Resource Center for the Education of Persons with Disabilities and Health limitations at the Moscow State Humanitarian and Economic University (MSHEU, http://rumts.mggeu.ru/ ).

Under this cooperation agreement, 28 university staff members completed advanced training in the following programs:
1) Development and Implementation of Adapted Higher Education Programs;
2) Supportive Guidance for Implementing Instruction Techniques in the Educational Process of an Inclusive University.

In 2020–2021, 147 staff members underwent advanced skills training at RTU MIREA's Institute of Additional Education on "Current Issues of Inclusive Education for Persons with Health limitations and Disabilities."

Students enrolled in the University Volunteer Team and members of the admissions committee participated in the training seminar "Volunteer Support for Persons with Disabilities and Health limitations during the Admissions Campaign in Higher Education Institutions."

Each institute within the university employs a specialist assigned with inclusive education support functions.