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Rebecca wrote -....Do other institutions accept DSA assessments as evidence?.... Depends on whether the assessment report records sight of the evidence, indicating who the original evidence came from, and the contents of the report. A well written report should indicate the evidence received. If there isn't enough info in the report, then we would request sight of further evience. Chris ________________________________ From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lewis, Rebecca Sent: 28 June 2007 11:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: FW: Evidence of disability Sorry to reply to my own email but I've just had a call from a colleague who felt my email was unclear. To clarify, we would not expect students to provide medical evidence when they first approached us. However, once a student is asking for exam adjustments / adapted accommodation or any of the other adjustments we might put in place we ask for evidence to be provided. I hope this clarifies my question. Thanks a lot Rebecca ________________________________ From: Lewis, Rebecca Sent: 28 June 2007 10:56 To: 'Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.' Subject: Evidence of disability Hello I'd be really interested to know how other universities deal with the question of evidence of a disability. We are looking at this whole area at the moment and I thought it would be useful to find out how other institutions manage this. Do you have a hard & fast rule about what is acceptable? For example, if a student with a mental health difficulty wanted to access your services are there a range of people you would accept evidence from? What about students with Aspergers / ASD? (BTW we don't do DSA assessments here so students are not providing evidence of disability for those to us. Do other institutions accept DSA assessments as evidence? We have discussed that idea & feel there are some difficulties with it). Thanks a lot Rebecca Rebecca Lewis Student Support Programme Manager Disability & Dyslexia Support Service Kingston University Tel; 020 8547 8058 This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System.