Interpreter support

What

If you have a hearing impairment, you may need an interpreter to participate in educational and/or examination activities.

The Cel Special Educational Learning Unit of the Ministry of Education and Training (Cel SOL) provides interpreter support for students with a hearing impairment so that they can successfully participate in teaching and exam activities. This concerns support via a sign language interpreter and / or a writing interpreter.

• The Flemish Sign Language interpreter converts live what the teachers and fellow students communicate in class into Sign Language and voices what you tell as a student.

• The interpreter writes down live what the teachers and fellow students communicate. Through these notes you can immediately follow the lesson.

As a student you can request a combination of writing interpreter support and VGT interpreter.

Conditions

To qualify, you must meet one of the following criteria:

1. Verify through a tonal audiometric test a loss of 70dB or more in both ears, for the pure-tone 500, 1000 or 2000 Hz stimuli (average Fletcher index value); and / or a loss of 70 dB or more in the best ear for pure-tone stimuli 1000, 2000 and 4000 Hz stimuli

2. Recognize less than 30% of the words at an optimal level with an average loss of less than 70 dB

You don’t need to be of Belgian nationality to apply for financial support. You just have to be enrolled at your institution as a degree student.

Request

The educational institution will follow up the application with the Cel Sol together with the student. Funding must be applied for annually. To make an application, please contact the contact point of your educational institution. The educational assumption also follows up the organization of the interpretation support.