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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