Support is available for all disabled students at the university through a Learning Support Plan (LSP), which ensures that your lecturers are aware of your support needs.
The LSP will include reasonable adjustments to the way in which your course is taught and assessed to ensure that you can achieve your full potential.
The exact recommendations in your LSP will depend both on your disability and your course requirements.
For more details about the LSP process, please take a look at our video.
Request a learning support plan
In order to access support, you will be asked to provide evidence both to the Disability and Learning Support team, and as part of any application for DSA (or equivalent).
Find out more about obtaining disability evidence.
If you have a disability, learning difficulty or long-term health condition, the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA) can help you to pay for extra costs that come as a result.
How to apply for DSA.
The following might all be eligible for a Learning Support Plan (for the exact definition, we refer to the Equality Act 2010):
Any named condition that lasts 12 months or more and has a significant impact on your ability to study.
LSPs will be available to students at any stage of pregnancy or within six months of having given birth.
For students who have a one-off condition that might affect their ability to complete an assessment in a standard format. For example, if you broke your arm, you may need to use a computer instead of handwriting in an exam.
We need to ensure that you can still meet the learning outcomes of a particular module or course, and they fit within the professional body requirements if you're on a professional course.
We also need to make sure that you're going to be marked fairly when compared to other students.
In these cases, your course team might also invite you to discussions with them and your LSC, so we can find the best way forward together.
In order for examination adjustments to be guaranteed for each exam period, they must be approved ahead of the corresponding LSP examination deadline.
For the 2024-25 academic year, these deadlines are:
If you book an appointment with our team that falls later than the approaching LSP examination deadline, we will talk to you about what interim support might still be possible. Where adjustments cannot be put in place, Additional Considerations processes will apply.
Please note that the LSP examination deadlines do not apply to adjustments relating to coursework submission or teaching adjustments, which will be facilitated as immediately as possible.
Staff in the Disability and Learning Support team can assist you with your enquiries in a sensitive and respectful way.
Discussion can be confidential but this will limit the amount of academic support that we can arrange for you. There are some situations where we might not be able to maintain confidentiality (for example if you or someone else is at risk).
For more information about how we use and store your information, please see our Disability and dyslexia privacy statement (.docx).
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