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This question arose through the issue of VAT. For what it is worth, the DfEE publications are pretty consistent in the trouble they go to when describing conditions eligible for DSAs as "disability and specific learning difficulties". This suggests that they do not regard it as a disability but as something else which they believe can have a deterimental effect and which is not socially induced but mostly congenital or at least the result of an illness. In this the DfEE cast their net quite widely, as do the employment side where it is possible to get the Disability Employment Adviser in the job centre to pay for training for dyslexic adults. Frankly, it is a grey area which most of them respond to without thinking too hard about classifications. The VAT man is apparently not so liberal. Dave Laycock MBE Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC Computer Centre for People with Disabilities University of Westminster 72 Great Portland Street London W1N 5AL tel. 0171-911-5161 fax. 0171-911-5162 WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%