> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:32:12 +0100
> From: [log in to unmask] (CA Baxter - Academic Support Services)
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Re: Lewisham LEA and DSAs
> Reply-to: [log in to unmask]
> Thanks to all contributors to this discussion, I should like to make a public
> apology as (pardon the expression) clearly wasn't enough, to Alison Courtney.
> By 'cosy local arrangement' I meant one like the arrangements some LEA's
> seem to have with some Access Centres, where the Access centre is central to
> all decisions made by LEA officers who feel they are unable to 'trust' (probablyget into trouble for that as well!) a university's @adviser, Officer, Co-
> ordinator, call us what you will, 's judgement/assessment. Or they feel
> they don't know enough 'about the disability' to make a judgement. That
> kind of arrangement is sometimes unhelpful when, for example, myself, the IT
> co-ordinator for disabled students, members of staff from the course and
> sometimes the Dysalexia support officer (not forgetting the student of course)
> have all been involved in an 'assessment of needs' which given the involvement
> would have been a costly one, which is then offered to the LEA for them to then
> say 'Oh but we always use the.......Access Centre for all our assessments,
>
> and then quote the bit about the student being assessed by 'an appropriately
> qualified person' ....... Professional snub aside for the moment (my shoulders
> are broad enough) this is a gross waste of time and money. In one instance
> the Access Centre and the LEA took 12 (yes twelve) months to organise an
> assessment for one particularly non-assertive students this was in her
> 2nd year !
> Thats what I meant aboutr cosy local arrangements, this I believe is not
> true of yourselves and Devon and yes in my opinion what ever you can do
> to push the boundaries is extremely helpful.
> Apologies again for any unintentional offence.
>
> Best wishes
> Chris Baxter
> The Nottingham Trent University
Thanks for this.
Alison
>
Alison Courtney
South West Regional Access Centre
Room 10, Babbage Building
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Plymouth, PL4 8AA
Tel: 01752 232253
Fax: 01752 232279
Minicom: 01752 232285
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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