Long Term Health Condition, Disability, or Mental Health Condition You will need to provide a medical statement from your doctor or appropriate specialist which confirms the nature of your long term health condition, disability, or mental health condition. Specific Learning Difficulty You must provide a full diagnostic assessment that was carried out by a suitably qualified specialist or psychologist. If the assessment was carried out before your sixteenth birthday, it will normally need to be updated so that Student Finance England are able to accurately assess the impact your learning difficulty will have on your studies.
If your application has been successful, the next step is to book a Needs Assessment Appointment. Be sure to keep the letter from Student Finance England, safe, and to bring it to your needs assessment appointment with you.
The needs assessment appointment is an opportunity to review issues and to discuss strategies to enable you to engage with your course more effectively. Such strategies can include use of equipment and software; access to specialist human support to learn new approaches to study for easy and exciting access to learning eg, assistive technology training, specialist learning support, mentoring.
Sign in to your student finance account to start your DSA application. If you do not have an online account because you applied for student finance by post, fill in a student finance form form DSA1. You can apply for DSA when you apply for student finance online. Fill in a student finance form form DSA1 to claim back your expenses.
It can take up to 14 weeks to get your DSA support in place as this is done separately. Check what you need to do. To help us improve GOV. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Cookies on GOV. You can use our Location Search to find your nearest one. This will give you contact details for each centre as well as a link to their websites for further information.
To find out more about the Assessment, please click here. We also recommend that you contact the Disability Team at your University or College at this point, to let them know you have been approved for DSA. On some occasions, your funding body may contact you and advise that either further information is required or that you need to provide additional evidence of your disability.
This does not mean that you are not eligible for Disabled Students Allowances, it may just be that you did not complete your application form correctly. If you are advised that you are not eligible for DSA support you can appeal to your funding body. Your Disability Officer may also be able to offer you further assistance.
Following the Needs Assessment, the assessor will write a Needs Assessment Report, detailing all the recommended support, as discussed during the assessment. Your Funding Body will review the report and consider the recommendations made by the assessor against their policy and regulations. After they have reviewed the Needs Assessment Report they will advise you of what has been approved.
Please note; It is important that you do not purchase any items until you receive your Needs Assessment Report as you will not be reimbursed. After the Funding Body has made a decision on your recommendations, you will receive a DSA2 Letter which will outline exactly what equipment and support has been approved The letter also includes the contact details of each of the support providers so that you can arrange for your recommendations to be implemented. Click here to see what the DSA2 Letter looks like.
Eligible postgraduate students will receive their DSA in one single payment for the duration of their course. You need to follow the instructions on your DSA2 letter in order to do this.
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