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Higher Education

worriednow

I have a son who has Aspergers and is having a miserable time at University, cannot organise himself at all. I'm afraid he will fail the first year, but what can I do.

He does get support, but it appears quite poor in quality and most of this term the support was off sick so none provided !!

 

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  • I am sorry to hear of your son's distress and the lack of support from his university. Like all things, some universities are very good with their support arrangements and others are not. Support in HE usually comes in 2 forms: Via Disabled Students Allowances - with a diagnosis of ASD an application to Student Finance is likely to be approved - they will approve an Assessment of Needs. This assessment would identify where the difficulties are - and the strategies needed to overcome them - sometimes, not always, by providing physical support staff or equipment like Coogybear describes. The other form of support is Not DSA - no formal assessment - but the HE/Uni offering a variety of accommodations - hand outs in advance, access to counselling etc. This gives less protection. If the service they said they would provide is not happening then the Disability Advisor is the person to connect with to highlight concerns, repercussions and to ask what they can do to sort things (and in what time frame). With DSA the student has the right to change provider of a service - employ their own staff - take the support - complain about it (or lack of) etc. The Disability Advisor is expected to assist the set up and monitoring of the support. From your post, I am not sure what your son's situation is so can't suggest anything more at the moment. R
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  • I am sorry to hear of your son's distress and the lack of support from his university. Like all things, some universities are very good with their support arrangements and others are not. Support in HE usually comes in 2 forms: Via Disabled Students Allowances - with a diagnosis of ASD an application to Student Finance is likely to be approved - they will approve an Assessment of Needs. This assessment would identify where the difficulties are - and the strategies needed to overcome them - sometimes, not always, by providing physical support staff or equipment like Coogybear describes. The other form of support is Not DSA - no formal assessment - but the HE/Uni offering a variety of accommodations - hand outs in advance, access to counselling etc. This gives less protection. If the service they said they would provide is not happening then the Disability Advisor is the person to connect with to highlight concerns, repercussions and to ask what they can do to sort things (and in what time frame). With DSA the student has the right to change provider of a service - employ their own staff - take the support - complain about it (or lack of) etc. The Disability Advisor is expected to assist the set up and monitoring of the support. From your post, I am not sure what your son's situation is so can't suggest anything more at the moment. R
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