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Just to let you know Deborah that the Chess planning group are chewing this over at the moment and hope to get a response to you, not sure we will come up with much so don't hold your breath! It would be advisable, in my opinion, to explore the actual requirements and choices for this student with the course team and raise the question of cost, with 'reasonable' in mind..... More soon I hope Chris Baxter Disability Service Co-ordinator The Nottingham Trent University Burton Street Nottingham NG1 4BU 0115 8486163 voice and minicom [log in to unmask] www.ntu.ac.uk/sss/disability/index.html [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Honey Lucas Sent: 08 July 2005 08:08 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: FW: BSL Support for PGCE Hi Deborah in a similar situation, a student has received some funding from the Snowdon Awards scheme although this hasn't been enough to bridge this gap. You may need to consider any concessionary or hardship funding available at your institution. If extra money really isn't available, then perhaps you need to discuss with the student whether there are alternative adjustments that would be acceptable for some parts of the course (using an electronic note taker for lectures, for example) which would allow you to concentrate the funding on those situations where an interpreter is necessary. best wishes Honey Lucas Deborah Altman wrote: > We have received an application for a 1-year PGCE course from a deaf > student who's a BSL user. I anticipate she'll need interpreter and > note-taker support for 12 weeks in College, then interpreters > full-time for 27 weeks in school. > > My rough estimate suggests that the non-medical helper support would > approximate £43,500; well in excess of the DSA Allowance of £11,840. > > Has anyone else had to consider funding this? Are there any other > sources of financial support, or any adjustments that can be made to > reduce the costs? > > I hope someone can help! > > Deborah Altman > Disability Co-ordinator > > Trinity and All Saints College > Brownberrie Lane > Horsforth > Leeds LS18 5HD > > Tel: 0113 283 7138 > Fax: 0113 283 7200 > > E-mail: [log in to unmask] -- Honey Lucas Disabled Student Adviser Student Services Oxford Brookes University Headington Campus Headington Hill Oxford OX3 0BP Tel: 01865 484689 Fax: 01865 484656 This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice.