I would strongly recommend contacting your local Access to Work team and seeing what they advise, they are likely to pay for the assessment as well.

 

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From: HE Administrators equal opportunities list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deborah Viney
Sent: 15 June 2010 10:53

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Subject: Re: Dyslexia assessments and support through Occupational Health

 

Hi

an occupational health department would be very unlikely to be able to offer dyslexia assessment as they are medics and such assessment is the province of psychologists (or occasionally specialist teachers) with the appropriate training.   If you get a lot of requests it might be worth negotiating a contract with a Chartered Educational Psychologist to provide such assessments, but to be honest people often prefer to be able to go to someone geographically convenient, so you might as well allow people to select a suitable EP from a source such as the British Psychological Society's website (www.bps.org.uk ) - though they need to ensure the EP has experience in assessing adults as not all do.
regards, Deb

On 15 June 2010 09:55, Fehmeeda Riaz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear All,

I hope you are all well.

We are currently reviewing our Occupational Health contract and may look to include dyslexia assessments for staff as part of the contract. Currently, we use our student Disability Service on a good will basis for an initial assessment and then a full dyslexia report and diagnosis is sought through a list of Educational Psychologists.

Have any other colleagues got a similar sort of set up?

Kind Regards

Fehmeeda

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