Knowledge and Awareness of PWD’s Facilities: A Case Study at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200921.023How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Person with Disability, PWD-friendly facilities, awareness, higher education student

Abstract

Person with Disability (PWD) is a group of people who face long-term physical, mental, intellectual, sensory impairment and any other factors which prevent their full effectiveness of participation in the community. This is because they need extensive care and required a specialize facilities to aid their daily task. However, among the PWD, higher education student is one of the portions of the group which required extra care and attention from the institutional. This group of PWD require facilities which can aid them during educational activities, PWD-friendly college amenities and recreational activity. However, these facilities are not well informed and signed as PWD students usually do not aware that their educational institution provides them with sufficient PWD-friendly facilities. This also affects other non-PWD students as they used these facilities unknowingly that the facility is built to aid PWD students. Therefore, a study is conducted to measure the awareness of the students, both PWD and non-PWD, about the PWD-friendly facilities provided by their educational institution. The study is focussed in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). The method used online questionnaire which the target audience is both groups of PWD and non-PWD student. The questionnaire was constructed to cover three elements which are to test the knowledge regarding the PWD in UTM, the type of PWD-friendly facilities provides by UTM and awareness of the respondent to the PWD-friendly facilities. The study found that most of the respondents are aware of basic facilities provided by UTM specialized to PWD students in several commonplaces such as lift, parking space and toilet. However, neutral result is obtained for overall knowledge in PWD-friendly among the respondents as they are not sure if the facilities are provided to PWD students or not. The reason is that the lack of effort from UTM to instil awareness regarding the existence of various PWD-friendly facilities, which can be improved more in the future.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Muhamad Farhin Harun
AU  - Muhammad Faris Hamid
AU  - Liza Md Salleh
AU  - Nurul Diyana Zainal
AU  - Nuradila Ahmad
AU  - Nursyazwani Aznan
AU  - D. Dahyuna Mohd Yunos
AU  - Arman Md Yasin
AU  - Nor Sita Zakirai@Zakaria
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/22
TI  - Knowledge and Awareness of PWD’s Facilities: A Case Study at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Student and Disable Student Development 2019 (ICoSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 132
EP  - 140
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200921.023
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200921.023
ID  - Harun2020
ER  -