AUT - Specific learning disabilities
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Specific learning disabilities
Specific learning disabilities is a general term that is used to describe people who may have challenges with listening, speaking, reading, writing, remembering things, reasoning, or mathematics. It could be something that you have always been managing, or the long term result following an illness, medical condition or injury.
If you have been diagnosed with any specific learning disability, we would need to see the report, usually from an educational psychologist, before we can agree to any additional help.
If you do not have an assessment report, but know or suspect you are having difficulties, we may be able to help. We work closely with Learning Development and Success: Te Tari Āwhina, and their Learning Disabilities lecturer. You can arrange a meeting and a learning assessment with them.
Support is designed to maximise your capacity to become an independent learner whilst studying at the University. Remember that the key to successful study is to plan ahead, check out the environment and resources, ask for assistance and do so at the earliest opportunity.
Find out more about your individual needs assessment interview.
- Dyslexia and specific learning disabilities
- What is a learning assessment?
- What support is available?
Dyslexia and specific learning disabilities
Other words to describe specific learning disabilities are:- Attention Deficit Disorder - AD(H)D
- Aspergers
- Autism
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia
- Dyscalculia
- Irlen’s syndrome
If you have been diagnosed with any specific learning disability, we would need to see the report, usually from an educational psychologist, before we can agree to any additional help.
If you do not have an assessment report, but know or suspect you are having difficulties, we may be able to help. We work closely with Learning Development and Success: Te Tari Āwhina, and their Learning Disabilities lecturer. You can arrange a meeting and a learning assessment with them.
Support is designed to maximise your capacity to become an independent learner whilst studying at the University. Remember that the key to successful study is to plan ahead, check out the environment and resources, ask for assistance and do so at the earliest opportunity.
What is a learning assessment?
A learning assessment aims to find out what your strengths are and where you may need help. You will be helped to develop plans to assist with your studies. In some cases, additional support may be provided. We advise that you contact us as soon as possible.What support is available?
Here are some of the resources that students with learning disabilities use at the University:- Information on disability related issues
- Support to discuss individual needs with Programme Leaders and lecturers
- Advice and information about specialised equipment and computer software to maintain independent learning
- Assistance and strategies for accessing lecture content and notes, e.g. notes online, note-taking support
- Help to manage unavoidable absences from class
- Help to study papers on a part-time basis
- Alternative arrangements for assessments and examinations, e.g. separate rooms and reader/writers for exams
Find out more about your individual needs assessment interview.
Last updated: 23 Apr 2012 1:45pm