Approval language
Completion requirements
This overview is intended to enable accessibility or low-barrier approval for as many students as possible for content that is conveyed via language. In the context of higher education, a certain level of language proficiency can be assumed internally. However, to ensure approval of the content to be taught, it is helpful for many students if a few points are taken into account.
2. Aspects to be considered
- Speak to the students.
- Take breaks to allow for note-taking.
- Structure the presentation/text logically and comprehensibly.
- Do not assume any knowledge that readers may not have.
- Name important content at the start date.
- Focus on core statements.
- Explicitly name contents.
- Repeat particularly relevant content.
- Illustrate content, e.g. through comparisons or examples.
- Formulate sentences actively instead of passively so that readers feel directly addressed.
- Favour verbs, use few(er) nouns and composites.
- Use the same terms for the same things, i.e. avoid synonyms.
- Use specialised vocabulary when necessary. Avoid specialised vocabulary if possible.
- Avoid dialects and superfluous foreign and filler words.
In the podcast episode "Barrieren für Autist_innen in der Kommunikation"(german) by Martin Schienbein you will find many of the points mentioned.