Dear Alison and colleagues
My understanding is that if this is an employment retention issue then one option would be for the individual along with her employer to make contact with their local Disability Employment Adviser in the JobCentrePlus office re assessment.( I believe Access to Work funding can only fund an assessment for someone with dyslexia who is in work IF they have received information about difficulties being experienced whilst in post as a result of the dyslexia... )
Alternatively, the employing institution may choose to fund an assessment through their Occupational Health service.
Some institutions, like Lena's, do actually make their assessment services for disabled students available to disabled staff as well - but this model does not necessarily apply to all HEIs.
Hope this is helpful.
best wishes
Liz
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Lena Kloos
Sent: 21 October 2004 14:38
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Subject: Re: provision of EP reports for staff
Alison
At the University of Hertfordshire our SpLD assessment service is made
available to staff and students.
My role as Disability Officer is based in the Equality Unit which means
that I cover disability issues in education, employment and service
provision. As such when it was agreed that the assessment service would be
run from my department we were keen to ensure that it would be made
available to staff as well as students. Over the past year I have been
helping the University to review practice / procedure etc with a view to
part 2 of the DDA and one of the outcomes of this was a decision to fully
fund staff assessments through a budget made available through Personnel.
Our procedures for assessing staff are obviously different to assessing
students, in particular the support they get after the assessment has taken
place. If you want to discuss this in more detail please feel free to
contact me off list.
Lena
At 12:52 21/10/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear all
>
>a member of our academic staff wants to have an Educational Psychologist's
>report to look into her suspected dyslexia and expects the institution to
>fund this. This is a new situation for us, and I have forwarded her
>request to our Equality and Diversity Officer as I have assumed this is a
>Personnel matter. ( My own provision is for funding student support, as is
>that of my colleague in Student Services). We have offered her back up
>through screening and staff development however. She believes it is
>practice in other universities to fund EP reports for staff and I haven't
>a clue whether this is so, although can believe that larger institutions
>are probably better placed to offer these kinds of services.
>
>Can anyone advise on practice? We are a small specialist arts institution
>and one university she mentioned was UEL, which is of a very different
>size to us. (Anyone from UEL out there??!)
>
>thank you very much
>
>Alison
>
>Alison James
>Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator
>Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
>Falkner Road
>Farnham
>Surrey
>GU9 7DS
>
>Tel: 01252 892762
Lena Kloos
Disability Officer
Equality Unit
University of Hertfordshire
Tel/Txt: 01707 28 4454
Fax: 01707 28 5094
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