Hi Sarah
The grant regulations covering DSA are quite clear on
this issue, the Allowance cannot be used to fund the cost
of diagnosing a disability - including dyslexia. Some
institutions who have the in house expertise and
appropriately qualified staff can produce a dyslexia
assessment, without the need for an external referral to an
Educational Psychologist. The same staff, or colleagues,
will often append a needs assessment to the diagnostic
report and charge for this. Some (many even) LEAs will let
it through although it is stretching the regs a little.
Often such set ups rely on the income from DSA to maintain
their units - if they had guranteed salaries charging
shouldn't really be necessary. Reimbursing a student for
fees paid to an external agent is stretching matters to
breaking point. Apart from anything else two individual
reports would go the the LEA rather than one compendium of
two. Your Finance department would probably query the
practice as well.
Bryan Jones
Equal Opportunities Adviser
London Guildhall University.
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:21:09 +0000 (GMT) "S.J.Davies"
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> Here at Hull, our Dyslexia Unit performs a lot of screening
> tests for students who suspect they have Dyslexia. The
> student pays £10 for this test. As a result of this
> initial screening test, a full Dyslexia assessment is
> recommended for some students. The cost of each full
> assessment is currently being met by our Access Fund which
> is very quickly running short of money.
>
> Do any of you bill the LEA for the cost of the full
> assessment if it is found that the student is found to be
> Dyslexic? The costs of equipment assessments are covered
> by a student's LEA, so surely dyslexia assessments should
> be treated in the same way?
>
> Any input on this would be gratefully received by my
> colleague and I.
>
> Thanks
> Sarah
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> Sarah Jayne Davies
> The Miriam Hebron Centre
> The University of Hull
> Cottingham Road
> Hull
> East Yorkshire HU6 7RX
> FAX: 01482 4662055
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