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Working with Disability Services
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Refer when a learner discloses a condition, when adjustments in your classroom aren't enough, or when you suspect an unmet need is blocking progress.
You do not need a diagnosis to refer.
- 1:1 assessment of need with a Disability Adviser
- Specialist study skills and assistive technology training
- Exam access arrangements (see the dedicated EAA section)
- Mentoring for anxiety, autism and SEMH
- Every learner with an EHCP or Additional Learning Support (ALS) plan has a one-page summary shared with their course team.
- Read it before week one.
- Build the named strategies into your session plans
- Adjustments are not optional extras.
- If a plan says "extended time on tasks" or "advance copy of materials", that is your minimum.
- If you can't deliver an adjustment, contact us before the session
TRY AND KEEP
Adjust or refer?
Six situations from the first weeks of a course. For each one, do you do it yourself, or refer?
EHCP and ALS: what a tutor needs to know
Eight things a colleague might say about referrals, plans and adjustments. Which are true?
The key points from the Disability Services guide, in its own words. It prints on one side of A5.
- You do not need a diagnosis to refer.
- Read it before week one.
- Build the named strategies into your session plans
- Adjustments are not optional extras.
- If you can't deliver an adjustment, contact us before the session
- What support is available