Our Disability Advisers advise University staff on how best to support their students. Advisers are happy to provide guidance, training, and development in the areas of:
- disabled student support
- University policy
- disability awareness
- other areas
Who we support
Disability Advisers will support anyone experiencing physical, psychological, or mental impairments. These impairments may create barriers to life as a student. These might be, but are not limited to:
- Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD's): students with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (AD(H)D)
- visual impairments: students who are blind or have a serious visual impairment not corrected by glasses
- hearing impairments: students who are d/Deaf or have a loss of hearing
- physical impairments: students who have mobility difficulties
- mental health difficulties: this category includes a student who has depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia
- unseen disabilities: students with diabetes, epilepsy, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancer, or other illnesses
- Asperger's Syndrome: students with Asperger's or other Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- another impairment: for students who have an impairment not listed above but are classed as disabled under the Equality Act (2010). You're disabled under the Equality Act if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a 'substantial' and 'long-term' negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities
The sections below give University staff information about how we support disabled students. If you have a query that's not answered here, please contact us for more information:
- Disclosure & confidentiality
- Needs assessment process, including:
- evidence
- reasonable adjustments
- disabled students information system on Pegasus (MS PowerPoint version)
- Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA) & other funding
- Legislation
- Reasonable adjustments
- Exam arrangements guidance
- Role of the Departmental Disability Contact (DDC)
- Support available for students
- Guidance for the Provision of Live Captioning in Zoom
- Funding (Disability Resource Development Fund (DRDF))