TIPD - Tertiary Initiatives for People with Disabilities

Tertiary Initiatives for People with a Disability

Please note that the TIPD project will cease to operate from Friday 27th August,1999. This website will be maintained until 31st December, 1999. TIPD would like to thank those people and organisations who have supported the project since it began in 1991.

A joint project of:

Australian Catholic University

Central Queensland University

Griffith University

James Cook University

Queensland University of Technology

Sunshine Coast University College

The University of Queensland

University of Southern Queensland

What is TIPD?

Tertiary Initiatives for People with Disabilities (TIPD) is a joint project of the eight publicly funded universities in Queensland.

TIPD targets issues related to students with a disability. It develops:

outreach programs for students with a disability who demonstrate academic potential and a desire to undertake tertiary study

improved infrastructure initiatives for students with a disability within universities

strategies to enhance access to employment for university graduates with a disability.

TIPD began operation in 1991 and is currently funded to July 1999.

TIPD is one of the cooperative projects that operates in each state. It is funded by the Higher Education Equity Programs of the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs.

TIPD Operations

TIPD employs a Project Manager and project officers to implement its programs, with administrative support. A management committee, consisting of representatives from each of the participating universities and graduates with a disability, develops annual plans and oversights the projects.

What Is Its Purpose?

The aim of the Project is to enhance the access of academically qualified people with a disability to higher education and appropriate graduate employment.
TIPD is not funded to provide direct services to university students, but seeks instead to foster inter-institutional cooperation in the development of policies and services related to students with a disability.

Guiding Principles

All participating institutions are involved in and benefit from work undertaken.

Appropriate policies, practices and procedures are embedded into the mainstream of institutional and agency activities.

Programs focus on developmental work and issues identified as impacting on successful entry to, and participation in, university study.

Closer liaison is sought with organisations concerned with post-secondary education, and with university and community personnel working with students with a disability.

TIPD Projects

TIPD Home Page on thw World Wide Web http://www.jcu.edu.au/disability/tipd/tipdhome.html

Internet outreach to link secondary and university students with disabilities and to link disability support staff in secondary schools and universities

Unitaste program for Years 10 and 11 students who have a disability

Outreach Video Tape: The University Option

Networking with senior schooling transition officers, advisory visiting teachers and guidance officers in secondary schools

Forums addressing learning disability and psychiatric disability

Strategies to enhance services to students with a print disability in tertiary education

Production of staff development videotape: Creative Teaching: Inclusive Learning

Publications:

Consider It

Plan for It

Making the Transition to Tertiary Study: A Guide to Helping Tertiary Students with a Learning Disability

Strategies for Teaching University Students with Disabilities

Psychiatric Disability and University Study: Who Copes? Forum Report

Succeeding with a Psychiatric Disability in the University Environment

Transition to Employment: A Guide for Graduated with a Disability

Benefits of Hiring a University Graduate with a Disability

Never Too Late fo University Study! A Guide for People with a Disability

Management Committee

Queensland University of Technology
Dr Barrie O'Connor (Chairperson)
Ms Kathy Newly

Australian Catholic University (McAuley)
Ms Trudi Haak

The University of Queensland
Professor John Elkins
Ms Laura Duggan

Central Queensland University
Ms J. Crowley

University of Southern Queensland
Ms Ellen Gibson

James Cook University
Mr Bill MacDonald
Ms Ros Calder

Sunshine Coast University College
Ms Di Paez

Griffith University
Professor Des Power
Ms Ann Stewart

Graduates
Ms Julie Webb
Ms Sharon Boyce

For further information about TIPD, please contact webmaster

This page last updated: 25 August,1999