Listed below are some of our services and counselling subjects:
- Guidance on who is entitled to receive welfare aid in special circumstances.and additional demand due to disability.
- Adaption support within the scope of the Bundessozialhilfegesetz – BSHG (federal welfare act), where the regional funding body for welfare aid is responsible, especially regarding Mobility aids and Study aids.
- Counselling on the wide area of personal care and assistance in the context of regulations within the cope of the Pflegeversicherung (long term care insurance) and federal social welfare benefit
- Regulations within the scope of BaföG (Federal Training Assistance Act) concerning disadvantage compensations if you excess the duration of financial aid due to disability and when you changed your field of study for an important or irrefutable reason, as well as well as specific regulations on the presentation of a graded evidence of achievement or the completed intermediate examination after the 4th semester.
- We offer advice to people who want to become a personal assistant.
- Advice on financial aid for postgraduate students, e.g. foundations for disabled students.
- General information on how to deal with study- and exam-regulations, particularly on possible alternative examination arrangements to compensate for disadvantages – cases of hardship, extra time, specific modifications of examinations, etc.
- Advice on administrative structures within university, e. g. available keys for elevators, library assistance in the university library
- Reading service for the blind and vision impaired
- Support in finding accessible accomodation in students residence halls or on the residential markel
- Information on transport services and care services or aid organisations for disabled individuals in Bochum
- Information about accessible holiday trips
- Writing of expertises and comments for disabled students
- Support in finding internships relevant for your study and advice on how to organise an internship or how to support trainees
- Information on leave of absence or absence due to illness
- General guidance on available aids – selection, purchase and financing
- Advice on different learning methods and preparations of subject matters, support in using specific compensatory technology
- Advice for German disabled students going abroad and international students in Bochum
- Counselling on graduation – support in application writing, jobsearch, placement etc.
- Advice on continued employment
- Work assistance according to the SGB IX ( Social Security Code)
- Advice on benefits according to the SGB IX – Disabled person’s pass, work space equipment, local and regional welfare offices
- Support in phrasing applications,substantiating an objection or legal actions. At your request we can provide administrative assistance with authorial bodies and take over representation in adminitratory or social actions.
- Content and handling of Act on Equal Opportunities of Disabled People (Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz, BGG)
