Hi,
Goldsmiths has paid full cost of assessments through ALF (for home
students) but this year we have advertised a deadline to apply of 25th
February in order to limit (ration if you like) the expenditure.
We reason that students have been given plenty of information to be aware
that assessments are available and if they can't get to us before 25th
February the fund will re-open in Sept.
Final year students coming in after 25/02 are unlikely to get much support
in place by the end of their courses even we did offer the assessment.
Barry
--On 29 January 2009 11:29 +0000 Ros Platton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Related to the previous query on EP reports and I know this question
> comes up on a regular basis, but do you charge students some or all of
> the cost of the dyslexia assessments? Since the ALF funding was cut
> about 2 years ago we are getting a smaller allocation to pay for
> assessments and even with topping this up from my budget, it is becoming
> very difficult to meet the costs for all students asking for an
> assessment (who have had a screening) at a small college.
>
> If you do charge how much do you charge and if not how do you ration the
> money you have? One student union member (who is dyslexic) suggested
> only assessing those who are severely dyslexic but from a screening test
> this would be hard to administer and not very equitable I think, but she
> was against charging students at all. Other option is to say you can
> only pay for a certain number per year but then that's not fair either.
>
> We also have quite a large number of distance learning students and
> haven't been asked to pay yet for any assessments but for equity they
> should be offered assessments too. What do you do about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ros Platton
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> Ros Platton
> Disability Advisor
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Barry Hayward
Disability Coordinator
Student Support Services
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
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