Future ENSAI students with disabilities can benefit from assistance, support and adjustments to their entrance exams, thanks to the support of the teaching, administrative and technical teams and the school’s disability unit.
Find out more about the different types of disability
A disability is a temporary or permanent impairment of one or more physical, sensory, mental or psychological functions. It can manifest itself in many forms and at all stages of life:
- Speech and language disorders: dyslexia, dysorthographia, dysphasia, stuttering, aphasia, etc.
- Motor disorders: paraplegia, hemiplegia, tetraplegia, tremors, dyspraxia, dysgraphia, joint pain, muscle weakness, spinal deformity, cerebral palsy…
- Psychological disorders: agoraphobia, depression, eating disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, addictions…
- Autism spectrum disorders not resulting in intellectual disability
- Cognitive disorders: failure of short-term memory, working memory, dysexecutive disorders, attention disorders (with or without hyperactivity), concentration disorders, etc.
- Visual disorders: blindness, mild to moderate visual impairment, hypersensitivity to light, sensory visual disorders…
- Hearing disorders: mild to profound deafness, tinnitus, hyperacusis, hypersensitivity…
- Disabling chronic illnesses: diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, narcolepsy, HIV, hepatitis B or C, endometriosis, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, myopathy, genetic or orphan diseases…
- People with multiple disabilities
- Disability resulting in intellectual impairment
Requesting special arrangements for ENSAI admission tests
For candidates entering ENSAI by competitive examination
The request for an adaptation of your admission exams must be declared to the exam organizing authority (SCEI for the CCINP exam; BCE for the B/L exam, BCE for the ENS Paris-Saclay D2 exam).
Candidates for the competitive entrance exams maintain the benefit of the accommodation granted to them for the baccalauréat (if they do not wish to have these accommodations re-evaluated).
ENSAI is informed of any accommodation granted to candidates taking the B/L competitive entrance examination, whose oral exams are held on our premises. Where applicable, candidates are notified of any test accommodation granted by ENSAI management.
For candidates entering ENSAI through admissions based on qualifications
Candidates must mention their specific needs for adaptation of their admission test(s) to admission@ensai.fr before the application deadline (except for cases of sudden and/or temporary disability arising after the application deadline).
It must also be accompanied by a medical certificate (from a doctor approved by the CDAPH for candidates who are not civil servants). The medical certificate specifies the test accommodations required and their duration of validity.
Candidates who do not reside in France must provide proof that their schooling has been accommodated at their current institution and/or provide a medical certificate attesting to their disability, translated into French or English. ENSAI’s management will validate the requested accommodations on a case-by-case basis.
Requests for accommodation must be submitted no later than the deadline for registration for the admission tests for the course of study requested, except in cases where the disability is revealed or modified after this deadline.
Candidates will be notified of the decision by e-mail.