Life for any student starting university life may be troublesome and fraught with complications, but imagine it for a student who stutters and has many conditioned fears and social anxieties. A need for a study into such a class of students has been largely overlooked to date and this needs to be addressed to understand the complex inclusion issues at hand.

It is estimated that 3% of the population at some stage in their life are affected by stuttering and 1% continue to stutter throughout their adult lives. Yet questions have to be asked. Why is there so little focus on the issue? What is the university process of registration like for a stuttering student and what solutions if any are they presented for their problems? To start off this process of understanding a survey was undertaken of each of Australia's 39 public universities internal disability sites to see what information was present with the view of a potential student in mind who just happens to also be a stutterer and to gauge if they were able to make a strong informed choice about how a university could address their needs and issues.

The results indicated that only 13% of universities had any form of formal teaching guide present on their websites that mentioned stuttering or speech impaired students. Some other notable results were a general lack of advertised disability policies, few in-date disability action plans and a lack of detailed disclosure information. The results of this study are far reaching well beyond the stuttering student alone and offer a strong snapshot of the online information that disabled people are offered as a whole by universities. The proposed 2nd and 3rd stages of this study will also be presented.