BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs and Disability students share why they chose to study this course at the University of Derby video transcript

Amy is filmed talking to the camera in our Basecamp venue. 

Amy Roland: So I chose Derby because I was on all the websites, when you go to like look at all the different universities and Derby was the only one that specified about Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities. And obviously that's my absolute passion. So it was for me, it was either Derby or nowhere. The course has been amazing. It's - that the the tutors are just incredible. The course that you learn is amazing. I'm getting a little bit emotional - it's just absolutely fabulous. The amount you learn, the debates you have in like in the sessions, it just makes you like become, like it helps you to build to become the professional that you are when you leave.

Leonie is filmed sat in our Basecamp venue. 

Leonie Webb: So I chose this course in Derby because it was quite close to home. But also, I looked at the student satisfaction rate. That was a big thing for me, and I could see that the majority of the students on this course were satisfied. They were satisfied with their grade and the university as well. So I came and checked out the city, made sure that it was a city I wanted to go to, and just checked out the atmosphere. But I've enjoyed that it's quite a practical course, but it also lets you expand any work that you do to like what you want to do, so you can expand it, but also make it very precise. You don't have to go into education. There's so many other opportunities that you have when, like I looked at other courses that wasn't an option on some of them, and the modules as well. So there's some modules here that they don't do at other universities.

Rachel is filmed sat in our Basecamp venue. 

Rachel Price: So the assignments during the course, you do get essays, but a lot of them aren't solely focussed on essays. Instead you can do presentations, blogs, 'TED talks'. And you can actually have opportunities to make, make resources that you can use in practice as well.

Charlotte is filmed sat in our Basecamp venue.

Charlotte Tweed: The broadness of what I can study is a big influence on why I chose this as I could choose how deep or not depth into different disabilities: I could tailor my own degree to me. The advice I'd give you is if you want to focus on one set disability because that's where you want to go, the course enables you to do so. You can permanently specialise, if you want to go for a more rounded perspective of different disabilities and different outcomes, different interventions, you've got that broadness and support to be able to literally explore your degree to whatever you want it to be.

Programme Leader Trevor Cotterill is filmed in our Basecamp venue. 

Trevor Cotterill: It will be beneficial if you want to work and support people who are children in early years. And also if you want to work and support children in primary school, or young people in adult working in the FE sector. But equally, the course allows you to take your knowledge of SEN and also disability. So it's one of the few degrees allows you start to research the whole of the SEND code of practice with areas related to sensory and physical difficulties, as well as cognition and learning and communication interaction, but put it into a context where you want to work and the concept of SEND is ubiquitous; it's everywhere. So, it's within the education, it's within health, it's in the community. And the course is designed so that if you have a passion for working and supporting people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disability in a range of contexts, this is the course for you.