Profile of Petr Peňáz
Director of the The Support Centre for Student with Special Needs (Teiresias Centre)
The Support Centre for Student with Special Needs (Teiresias Centre) was established, after a short development within the Faculty of Informatics, in 2000, as one of the central bodies of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
Its primary task is to provide maximum accessibility to all accredited degree programmes for the blind and partially sighted, the deaf and partially hearing, people with limited or restricted mobility and people with other types of difficulties. Teiresias Centre became one of the biggest university centres for people with disabilities in Europe.
Approximately 100 blind and partially-sighted and more than 100 deaf/Deaf or hard-of-hearing students, which is more than a half of the sensorially disabled university students in the Czech Republic, are now included in the study programmes of Masaryk University, using the services of the Centre.
