Thinking
about Higher Education but have a disability and no way
of knowing how much support is available?
Don’t worry! Help is available and this section
sets out the extra funding that is accessible to support
students with disabilities that can include:
- Wheelchair or mobility difficulties
- Blind or partially sighted impairment
- Deaf or hard of hearing impairment
- Specific Learning difficulties (e.g. dyslexia)
- Mental Health difficulties
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder or Aspergers Syndrome
- Unseen disabilities (e.g. diabetes, epilepsy, asthma,
ME)
If you plan to study a Higher Education course (for
example a BSc, BA, BEng, DipHE HND, HNC) and regard
yourself as disabled you may be entitled to Disabled
Students’ Allowances (DSA).
source: aimhigher "time to think about higher education" leaflet series