Access All: Disability News and Mental Health

There’s Covid On Campus


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From online learning to entire halls of residences being placed in lockdown, students across the country have found themselves at university in extremely testing circumstances.

Those with a disability could potentially find it extra tough.
BBC Ouch’s Keiligh Baker speaks to students from the University of Aberdeen, where more than 100 people tested positive for Covid-19 at the start of October.
Bea is a third year linguistics student who worries disabled students are being treated as an afterthought by universities. She became convener of the Disabled Students Forum to help change that.
Meanwhile, 19-year-old Esme is a fresher and lives opposite the halls of residence where everyone is in quarantine …
Produced by Kirstie Brewer.
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