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Suing due to disability discrimination

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Does anyone know how I'd go about this please? I know there's criteria, such as time limit, etc. which I'm well within.

In my case, (it has been mentioned on here before) I can't attend a college because they've denied me reasonable adjustments which have been recommended by 2 unis (and were followed by said unis) and a previous college followed the same recommendations.

They tried to justify their refusal by:

- deciding I don't have Autism (it's in writing that I have it)

- telling me I don't need those recommendations as recommended by 2 qualified disabled students allowance (DSA) providers

- telling me that I have equipment I can use which solves the issue. They don't solve the issue.

- telling me that people with severe physical disabilities don't get help (how is that legal?)

They claimed it was all down to money - that's their justification.

This has meant I'm going to have try and find somewhere much further away to continue my education, for which there really is nothing.

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  • You've got me going on this now. I looked for FE in Plymouth and got City College Plymouth (is this the one? Can't think why it didn't come up on my original search).

    Under Student Life and Support they have Studying with Disability (www.cityplym.ac.uk/.../studying-disabilities). This lists Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia and ADHD, with little explanatory paragraphs and links to related websites. Nothing about autism or Asperger's Syndrome - have they been told its something you grow out of?

    They do have an Accessibility Committment for 2013/2014 which list begins with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome. But there is no other mention of it in this document, which expands on everything else, so it may be that autism is something they've just found out about and slipped into the plan for courses starting in the autumn.

    There is a list of specialist equipment supplied by the library. It does say on p15 that coloured paper is available if you need it.

    A list of outside agencies they work with doesn't include NAS or any other autism organisation.

    The document includes a complaints procedure. But the Principal's introduction says they've been successfully reviewed for the two-ticks disability symbol (L. O. L). And they make a big thing about Disabled Go.

    It sounds like there is something fundamentally wrong here. The Autism Act clearly hasn't reached this part of Britain.

    NAS - this is truly bad.  Anticipatory provision is a key part of disability legislation for F E Colleges, and it clearly isn't happening in Devon. What's the local authority compliance with the Autism Act like?

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  • You've got me going on this now. I looked for FE in Plymouth and got City College Plymouth (is this the one? Can't think why it didn't come up on my original search).

    Under Student Life and Support they have Studying with Disability (www.cityplym.ac.uk/.../studying-disabilities). This lists Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia and ADHD, with little explanatory paragraphs and links to related websites. Nothing about autism or Asperger's Syndrome - have they been told its something you grow out of?

    They do have an Accessibility Committment for 2013/2014 which list begins with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome. But there is no other mention of it in this document, which expands on everything else, so it may be that autism is something they've just found out about and slipped into the plan for courses starting in the autumn.

    There is a list of specialist equipment supplied by the library. It does say on p15 that coloured paper is available if you need it.

    A list of outside agencies they work with doesn't include NAS or any other autism organisation.

    The document includes a complaints procedure. But the Principal's introduction says they've been successfully reviewed for the two-ticks disability symbol (L. O. L). And they make a big thing about Disabled Go.

    It sounds like there is something fundamentally wrong here. The Autism Act clearly hasn't reached this part of Britain.

    NAS - this is truly bad.  Anticipatory provision is a key part of disability legislation for F E Colleges, and it clearly isn't happening in Devon. What's the local authority compliance with the Autism Act like?

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