Accessible environment
Barrier Free Environment
A unique structural unit of NSTU is the Institute of Social Technologies and Rehabilitation (ISTR). It administers the secondary vocational and higher educational programs for abled and disabled students. The ISTR is a federal center for continuous vocational education for disabled people. The ISTR is located in the specially equipped building #8 since 2013.
Special room equipment
For physically disabled students:
- a special parking lot, ramps, handrails on the stairs;
- 4 specialized elevators, no-threshold connections between rooms, attendant call buttons;
- special seats in lecture halls; students experiencing difficulties with moving about the university can use wheelchairs.
For students with visual impairments:
- contrasting tactile paving in the halls and on the stairs;
- the information placed in the building is equipped with Braille tactile writing system;
- elevators, as well as the whole building have audible announcements installed.
For students with hearing impairments:
- information board;
- interactive panel for an unaided search for information on the NSTU website.
Logistical support of education
NSTU provides special equipment and facilities for learning of disabled students:
- 15 specialized classrooms with multimedia equipment;
- 8 classrooms equipped with modern computers and projectors;
- a specialized laboratory FabLab equipped with computers and numerical control machines for teaching information technologies to students;
- equipment for studying robotics;
- equipment for learning color printing;
- workshops equipped with woodworking machines;
- sewing and ceramic workshops;
- a conference hall equipped with sound reinforcement for the students with hearing impairment;
- a self-study classroom for the students with vision impairment with all necessary facilities (computers with speech output; Braille displays for tactile reading; a reading machine; an electronic magnifying glass; a program for increasing the display size; printers for magnifying the text and graphic information; manual electronic HD magnifiers and other special facilities);
- individual and group acoustic system, as well as FM-system for working with hearing impaired students.
