this is pretty useful also .....

Judith Waterfield’s SPACE resource can be accessed at http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/disability/Documents/Space%20toolkit.pdf
.



with regards
John

Dr John Conway
Director of Research
Programme Manager, MSc International Rural Development
Programme Manager, MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
Disability Officer
Royal Agricultural University
Cirencester, Glos. GL7 6JS
01285 652531

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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Natalya Dell [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 May 2014 23:12
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Subject: Re: Recommend books

Dear Emma,

I don't know if you have had any replies off list, but this post caught
my eye. Most of the materials I have used in the 6 years since I
started my post as a disability adviser have not been books but have
been online and freely available. Many are now "out of date" but the
principles do still apply.

I tend to download the most useful ones and keep them in a folder in my
dropbox where I can search the content of them (including PDFs
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025) for key
words and areas.

I'll summarise the best ones below and maybe others will be inspired to
comment too.

DRC Post 16 Code of Practice Post-16.
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/uploaded_files/code_of_practice__revised__for_providers_of_post-16_education_and_related_services__dda_.pdf

An oldie and now legislatively a bit out of date, but I think still
contains a lot of really useful stuff in an accessible layout using
examples and case studies.


Equality Human Rights Commission "Technical Guidance on Further and
Higher Education"
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/legal-and-policy/equality-act/equality-act-codes-of-practice-and-technical-guidance/#Technical_guidance_Education_n_Schools
(scroll down a bit).

This is a more up to date document similar to the DRC one and probably
the most generally comprehensive.


SWANDS "SENDA Compliance in Higher Education" at Plymouth University
http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/disability/Documents/Swands%20project-SENDA%20compliance.pdf


This is a very useful checklist/toolbox style approach. Again a bit out
of date as it pre-dates Equality Act but contains well laid out
accessible content. I find this useful for giving to academics or
breaking stuff down.


"Making reasonable adjustments with disabled students in higher
education"
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/makingreasonableadjustments.pdf

This has subject specific examples as well as adaptations to assessments
which is an increasingly hot topic.


Generally useful sources of many documents are:
Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) http://www.ecu.ac.uk
Higher Education Academy (HEA) http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/

I recommend browsing round or searching these and not getting too
overwhelmed by how many pop up. I read them when relevant or as they get
released and links emailed round.


Subject specific
General Medical Council (GMC) "Gateways to the Professions"
http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/gateways_guidance.asp (you
can download PDF or word versions in panel in right hand side)

Is very useful for medical type studies and the kinds of adjustments it
is and is not reasonable to consider for clinical practice.


PeDDS "Best Practice Guide: Disabled social work students and
placements" http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fhsc/pdf/PEDDS%20best%20practice.pdf

Quite out of date in all legislative terms, but this document is written
from 4 angles: Student, Practice assessor/teacher, academic staff and
disability support staff. The issues raised/discussed are still
relevant and it's useful for ideas.


There are a few books but as books are expensive to produce/print I
think it's more common for guidance documents and academic papers to be
more useful.

I hope others will post some ideas of useful documents here too, in such
a self-educated profession it can all be a bit daunting when you're new.

Natalya


On 19/05/14 15:45, Emma Elliott wrote:
> Dear all,
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> Can anyone recommend any books that would be useful to a Disability
> Advisor in Higher Education responsible for assessing students and
> putting in place reasonable adjustments?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Emma
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