Here's a reply from a friend who lives in New Zealand, and who works with deaf students at university:
"As far as I know the assessor role as such doesn't exist in NZ. We have disabled student advisers but they don't have specific qualifications in assessing student needs. Usually they're from a social work / OT type background.
The Advance Centre in Auckland is kind of like an assessment centre for Deaf students in the Auckland area, but again they haven't got specific training / systems to do a needs assessment.
If you want I can forward the query to people at Victoria Uni (who are in a national organisation for disabled student advisers) and the Advance Centre, so that they can comment on what systems are in place?"
Here is the link for the Advance Centre by the way: http://tinyurl.com/6xncdx
Cheers,
Bryan
Uni of Manchester
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marie Norris
Sent: 14 August 2008 16:31
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Hi there,
Mike Adams and Paul Brown did some research for the National Disability Team which resulted in a HEFCE publication entitled 'Disability and Higher Education: The Australian Experience'. It might be worth tracking that down.
Best wishes, Marie
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Sent: 14 August 2008 15:31
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Subject: Neesd assessors in New Zealand and Canada?
Hello
Can anyone help me with this knotty question to which I have to date failed to find a reply?
Are there equivalents of the UK Needs Assessor role for disabled students in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa? I need to find this out and how best to contact the relevant agencies (and which ones they are) but have so far drawn a blank.
Also - do these countries support dyslexic students and school pupils to the extent that is the case in the UK? Either I have completely failed to find the relevant information or there is in fact a different level of support.
Any help gratefully reveived on this one.
Christine Tait
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