Office of Inclusive Education and Mental Health

Head of the Office for Inclusive Education and Mental Health
Shabdenova Daria Rakhimaliyevna
Phone: 8 (707) 704 40 74
Email: shabdenova@alt.edu.kz
Inclusive education is a process that ensures equal access to education for all students, taking into account their special educational needs and individual abilities.
ALT University provides students with special educational needs (hereinafter referred to as SEN) with a number of necessary conditions:
- ALT University JSC teachers who accept the diversity of students’ abilities;
- the use of different forms of organizing the educational process, variable teaching methods and techniques focused on different student abilities;
- the use of individualized methods of assessing student achievement;
- special technical, auxiliary, and compensatory aids;
- regulatory documents and methodological materials governing the organizational and technological processes of meeting special
educational needs.
ALT University JSC is actively working to improve the quality of its graduates and enhance its educational reputation. In addition, it has all the necessary conditions to create an inclusive educational environment for students with special educational needs.
Key indicators of ALT University JSC’s readiness to implement the educational process with students with special educational needs and disabilities:
Organizational and regulatory requirements
Regulations on the Office of Inclusive Education and Psychological Support of the Department of Educational and Social Work
RI- 88 REGULATION ON THE PROCEDURE FOR ORGANIZING THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS (STUDENTS) PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (HIA)
RI-08 Regulation on psychological support
Action plan to create conditions for the education of persons with special educational needs and inclusive education for 2023-2029
Staffing
The University’s staffing table provides for an Office of Inclusive Education and Mental Health with two staff positions: Head of the Office of Inclusive Education and Mental Health and Chief Specialist Expert. In order to prepare teaching staff for working in an inclusive education environment, create the necessary conditions and a barrier-free environment, and organize educational and training activities for people with special educational needs, teachers and staff at ALT University undergo advanced training courses on the topic: “Psychological and pedagogical support for children with special educational needs in inclusive education.”
Building accessibility
Special conditions have been created for people with special educational needs. From the sidewalk (from the pedestrian paths) to the main entrance of the main academic building and inside along the corridor to the inclusive office (No. 2102) + inside the library, as well as for the entrance to the elevator, special tactile plates (special yellow colors with distinctive textural surfaces) were laid.
There are signs with Braille in the office and bathrooms. Yellow identification signs and a call button are installed in front of the entrance to the building of JSC “ALT University” at a height of 0.9 m to 1.2 m from the floor level, and instructed by the security service, who will immediately respond to the call for access to the buildings.
Portable door ramps have been installed in the main academic building and Pavilion No. 5, which is as accessible as possible for people in a wheelchair, a distance of 0.4 m from the floor level.
There are places for disabled people’s personal vehicles with an identification mark, which are located near the main entrance no further than 30 meters, and accessible to the disabled.
A separate bathroom (No. C214) is organized for the disabled with equipped with special convenient plumbing, handrails, holders. There is enough free space inside the room, which allows not just a person to move, but at the same time use a walker, a wheelchair, or go in together — a disabled person and an accompanying person.
An elevator with an identification mark has been allocated.
At the same time, according to the requirements, a special room was allocated in the interior of the GUK for conducting classes with students with special educational needs in room No. 2102.
Light beacons are installed in all the Houses of students and the University’s GUK from the path on the walls at a height of 1.5 to 2.1 m. The color of the beacons on the paths of safe movement is green, in areas of increased attention – yellow, and in areas of dangerous or restricted accessibility — red.
Material and technical support
In order to improve the quality of education for students with disabilities, JSC “ALT University” inclusive education room No. 2102 GUK is provided with the following special equipment:
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desktop magnifier on a bracket with backlight; |
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pencil for writing in Braille (male); |
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calculator “talking”; |
a set of films for the “Shkolnik” device; | |
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tactile Braille ruler 14 cm; |
tactile Braille ruler 30 cm; | |
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the device is 18-line for writing in Braille; |
device for relief drawing “Shkolnik”; | |
Braille protractor for the blind; | |
triangle with relief scale for the blind. | |
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SARA CE is a new generation of autonomous scanning and reading machine for blind and visually impaired users. |
Educational and methodological support
Schedule of consultations
SCHEDULE
for consultations at the Office of Inclusive Education and Mental Health of the Department of Educational and Social Work for the first semester
of the 2025-2026 academic year
№ |
Type of work |
Time |
Location |
1 |
Providing psychological counseling for students with disabilities and special educational needs |
Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
Coworking Ideas space |
2 |
Psychological counseling for parents upon request |
Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
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3 |
Psychological counseling for students |
Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
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4 |
Providing psychological counseling for employees and faculty members |
Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |