This question arose through the issue of VAT. For what it is worth,
the DfEE publications are pretty consistent in the trouble they go to
when describing conditions eligible for DSAs as "disability and
specific learning difficulties". This suggests that they do not
regard it as a disability but as something else which they believe
can have a deterimental effect and which is not socially induced but
mostly congenital or at least the result of an illness. In this the
DfEE cast their net quite widely, as do the employment side where it
is possible to get the Disability Employment Adviser in the job
centre to pay for training for dyslexic adults. Frankly, it is a grey
area which most of them respond to without thinking too hard about
classifications. The VAT man is apparently not so liberal.
Dave Laycock MBE
Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
University of Westminster
72 Great Portland Street
London W1N 5AL
tel. 0171-911-5161
fax. 0171-911-5162
WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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