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Contributions to Students With Assistive Technology (SWAT) |
The Students With Assistive Technology (SWAT) team is a student-led initiative that has mainly an disability advocacy objective and strategy orientation. Their work is multifaceted and ranges from peer-to-peer interactions to making recommendations to university wide practices and procedures. It/they are a wing of Deakin University's Students as Partners projects and peer support network. |
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The Students With Assistive Technology (SWAT) team are a a wing of Deakin University's Students as Partners projects and peer support network. It is a student-led initiative that has undertaken unit site testing, developed podcast interviews with other students with a disability, and advised and supported a range of students with assistive technology (AT) workarounds and knowledge. They are mainly an advocacy organisation and their work is multifaceted and ranges from peer-to-peer interactions to making recommendations to university wide practices and procedures.
You can use the email address <deakin[at]swatspace.com> (without the angle brackets) if you have any queries for the team.
See blog posts from Deakin Life and DTeach Teaching and Learning Innovation Hub for more information on SWAT and its objectives, which the team won an award for on 19 May 2022. The announcement on the actual ADCET website can be found here.
Two of its members, Layla and Kia, have released a podcast called “Let's Get Accessible” which can be found here. You can listen via the Spreaker app or with Google Podcasts on your preferred smart home speaker or any other similar device of your choosing.