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Table 12 Profile of Students Living with Disability Across Faculties, According to Gender, Population Group and
Disability Category
Gender Number Pop. Group Number Disability Categories Number Faculties Number
Male Business &
215 Africans 190 Blind 3 109
Economics
Whites 142 Hearing impaired 8 EBEIT 96
Female 171 Coloureds 44 Neurodevelopmental 184 Education 22
Indians 10 Psychosocial 47 Health Sciences 37
Multiple 58 Humanities 50
Partially sighted 32 Law 34
Physically disabled 41 Sciences 38
Chronic 13
Total 386 Total 386 Total 386 Total 386
Most of the students with disabilities are male (55.7 percent) and African (49.2 percent), with Whites constituting 36.8 percent
(see Table 12). The most prevalent disability category is neurodevelopmental (47.7 percent), followed by multiple disabilities
(15.0 percent), and psychological (12.2 percent). Business and Economic Sciences (28.2 percent) and EBEIT (24.9 percent) are
the two faculties with the highest number of students with disabilities.
Partnerships have been formed with special needs schools as part of the higher education readiness programme for prospective
students with disabilities. In 2020 a total number of 386 students with disabilities disclosed their disabilities with many applying
for reasonable accommodations.
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