Case Study
Workplace design for a teacher

Company:

The employer is an elementary school or state government.

Employee's Disability and Functional Limitation:

The woman has ataxia with a disorder of movement coordination in walking and handling. She also has difficulty holding objects with her hands for extended periods of time and standing for extended periods of time.

Training and job:

The woman studied to be a primary school teacher. After her studies or 1st state examination, she completed a two-year traineeship, which she finished with the 2nd state examination. She teaches pupils from the first to the fourth grade at the employer's or at the primary school.

Workplace and work task:

The teacher is not able to chalk on the blackboard to teach. She has problems holding the chalk for writing and sketching and standing in front of the board for longer periods of time due to her disability.
To enable the teacher to continue teaching, the conventional blackboard was replaced by an interactive whiteboard with a diagonal of 85 inches. In conjunction with a pen display (special tablet with a stylus) as an accessory, the teacher can create blackboard images and record the learning content from her teacher's desk in a seated posture. The board images and learning content are transferred directly from the pen display to the whiteboard and displayed. Students can also write learning content on the whiteboard by hand or with a "pen". These are then transferred to the teacher's pen display.
The board images developed on the pen display and whiteboard can then be saved. One of the advantages of this is that they are available for subsequent lessons and can be repeated without effort.

Work organisation and working environment:
The teacher always teaches in the classroom with the whiteboard, i.e. the pupils or classes change rooms and come to her. The classroom can be reached barrier-free by the teacher.

Assistive products used:

Support and participation:

The design suitable for disabled people was supported by the integration or inclusion office. Advice was provided by the engineering service for suitable for disabled people work design of the integration or inclusion office - the so-called technical advice service.
also the addresses and telephone numbers of the integration and inclusion offices.

ICF Items

Reference Number:

Pb/110830


Last Update: 11 Feb 2014