Prospective students and students usually face special questions and challenges in choosing a degree program and when taking up and completing their studies. This also applies to prospective students and students with a disability, a chronic illness or similar impairment.*

The Student Counseling Center of TUHH aims at enabling all students to participate in studies and in student life as independently as possible and with equal opportunities. You are welcome to seek advice on this issue and make an appointment via the Infothek.

The following pages help to find relevant sources of information and support as well as institutions and contact persons:

Explanatory video clips of the Hamburg Network Studying and Impairment
on the following issues:

• Studying with impairments in Hamburg?!
• Students with impairment in Hamburg
  Are you one of them?
• Study orientation in Hamburg
  What should be clarified?
  Does the impairment matter?
• Application and admission at Hamburg state universities
  Can you improve your chances of admission?
• Getting started with your studies
• Compensation of disadvantages in course achievements and exams
• Application for compensation of disadvantages
• Withdrawing from exams

News:

• one for all: The Student Survey in Germany
  by DZHW, Uni Konstanz, DSW and BMBF
  including a survey on "studying with impairment"
   
• kobinet-nachrichten
  Topical news service on disability politics
  by the Association for the Internet-based Cooperation of Disabled Persons (kobinet)
   
• Kino für alle (Cinema for everyone)
  by the German Association of Blind and Visually Handicapped Persons

TUHH:

• Representative for the Interests of Students with Impairment* at TUHH

• Student Counseling Center at TUHH

• Department of Social Affairs of the Student Union (AStA) at TUHH

• Department of Equality of the Student Union (AStA) at TUHH
   
• STUDIS - Admission and Registration at TUHH
  (Applications regarding special hardship e.g. for admission to TUHH)

• Statutes of Studying at TUHH
  (Hardship regulations in §6, §14, §29, §35, Anhang 3)

• Examination Office at TUHH
  (Applications for compensation of disadvantages in examinations)
   
• Explanatory note regarding application for disability compensation
  (Information regarding applying for special arrangements for
  examinations)
   
• Form for application of disability compensation (Optional application form for special arrangements for examinations at TUHH)

• General Examination and Study Regulations (ASPO)
  (Regulations for compensation of disadvantages in §22, Abs.(5))
   
• Counseling service of the International Office of TUHH
  on study-related stays abroad for students with impairment*
  (contact person: Sarah Neumann)
   
• TUHH Library
  (Information for people with disabilities)
   
• Representative of Severely Handicapped Staff at TUHH
  (Not responsible for student affairs!)
   
• Hearing aid devices at TUHH
   

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  Student Service Organisation:
   
• Studying with chronic illness/disability/impairment
  Website of the Student Service Organisation in Hamburg
   
• Counseling Center for Social and International Affairs (BeSI)
  of the Student Service Organisation in Hamburg

• Counseling Center for Study Financing (BeSt)
  of the Student Service Organisation in Hamburg

• Counseling Center Accommodation
  of the Student Service Organisation in Hamburg

• Information and Counseling Office for Studying with Disabiltities (IBS)
  of the German Student Service Organisation
   
• Scholarships for students with impairment*
  (tips for searching provided by the IBS)
   
• Guidebook "Studying with a Disability"
  of the German Students Service Organisation
   

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  Hamburg:

• Studying with a mental disorder: (How) does it work?
  Information provided by the HAW and the HOOU
  for students and prospective students
   
• HOPES - Support and Orientation for Mentally Ill students
  in Hamburg
   
• KISS - Contact and Information Centers for self-help groups in Hamburg
  (Counseling on and connection to self-help services in Hamburg)
   
• Hamburg Association for Handicapped People (LAG)
  Union of self-help associations for people with handicap and chronic illness, their friends and relatives

• Services for Students with a Disability in Hamburg

• Hamburg Autism Institute
   
• Exchange of Experience for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  at the HAW
  (open to affected students of all universities in Hamburg)
   
• PEM Autism/
  PEM Center -  Center for the Arts, Culture and Education
  Support for people on the autism spectrum
   
• Regional Association Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Hamburg
   
• iDeas Hamburg
  Pressure group of deaf students
   
• Equal Opportunities Representative of the Senate of Hamburg for people with impairment
   
• Association for Handicapped and Rehabilitation Sports in Hamburg (BRS)
  Specialised association for rehabilitation, handicapped and integration sports
   
• Der Hamburger Weg - Inclusion Calendar 2020
  List of upcoming inclusive sports events in the Hamburg metropolitan area
   
• Hamburg Barrierefrei e.V. - Hamburg accessible for people with impairment
  Experiencing Hamburg without barriers
   
• Kulturlotse Hamburg e.V.: Cultural Guide
  Cultural events in Hamburg accessible for people with impairment
   

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  Further information and contacts:
   
• Studying abroad with impairment*
  (Information by the German Academic Exchange Service)
• INCLUSIVE MOBILITY.EU
  Online platform for the promotion of the interanational mobility of students with disabilities
• luftsprung campus
  Scholarship for young people with chronic illness
   
• German Association of Blind and Visually Handicapped Students and Professionals
  (DVBS)
   
• LiTeX - Formula Program for Visually Impaired Persons
  (for the representation of formulas in mathematics and natural sciences,
  by Dr. Werner Liese)

• National Association of Hearing Impaired Students and Graduates
  (BHSA)
   
• Network of Students with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  (studiCED)
   
• National Association Stuttering and Self-help
  Pressure group and information and counseling for stuttering people in Germany
   
• National Association for Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
   
• ADHD Germany
  Self-help for people with ADHD
   
• Guidebook for Disabled Persons
  of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
   
• German Disability Council (DBR)
  Action group of German disability organisations
   
• European Disability Forum
  Europe-wide umbrella organisation of persons with disabilities

* If you are in doubt as to whether you have an impairment that is relevant to your
  studies, you may find further information here.