Marcia Mirl Lyner-Cleophas

Marcia Lyner-Cleophas initiated and manages the Disability Unit at Stellenbosch University (SU) since 2007. Disability inclusion from a policy, practice, review and renewal perspective forms a core part of her work. She has a vested interest in contributing to the successful academic lives of students at SU by making an impact at multi-sectoral levels. She is involved in training and the mentoring of interns. Dr Marcia has published articles and book chapters on disabilityinclusion, universal design and universal design for learning, supervised and examined master's and Doctoral theses, with the main theme being disability inclusion in the post-school education phase. She is a HERS and Erasmus Mundus alumni and has presented several papers internationally and nationally. Currently, she is a member of the Higher and Further Education Disability Services Association (HEDSA) in South Africa, the African Network of Evidence to Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) based at Stellenbosch University and is on several other management committees.

Publications

Universal Design for Learning as Support for the Inclusion of Deaf Student Teachers in Training
Universal Design for Learning as Support for the Inclusion of Deaf Student Teachers in Training
Marcia Mirl Lyner-Cleophas, Claudia Priscilla Saunderson, Lizelle Josephine Apollis. © 2023. 18 pages.
South Africa is a society historically marred by exclusion and discrimination based on inter alia race, gender, economic status, disability, and language. The restoration of...