As I stated a couple of weeks ago, you will need to have the students in question contact their respective LEAs with a specific claim to have the DSAs pay for special services, as each claim must be judged on its own merits. Cheers, Steve. > Does anyone know if any LEAs have agreed to fund extra costs at > examinations, e.g. Braille paper, or numerical question papers being > Brailled, or scribe costs. > > I'm sure most respond by saying it is the indivdual institutions > responsibility, but if anyone has managed to get these sorts of costs > funded out of DSA I'd be intrested to know. > > Many thanks and Happy Christmas ! > > Rebecca LOngley > Disability Co-ordinator > Soton Institute > > > Steve Metcalfe Division of Assistive Resources and Technology University of Lincolnshire & Humberside, UK Tel: +44 (0)1482 440550 ext. 4029 Fax: +44 (0)1482 441411 EMail [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%