DCG Student Handbook 2024-25 accessible - Flipbook - Page 20
SUPPORT AVAILABLE TO YOU
LEARNING SUPPORT
Learning Support Team
Your Learning Support Team provide support and
encourage you all to maximise your potential and reach
aspirational goals. Reaching this potential may require
elements of personalised support such as, in and out-ofclass support, advice and guidance on the use of resources
and equipment, and much more.
This range of support is a vehicle to enable you to access
all the opportunities that the College has to offer. Our
consistent aim is to ensure all student’s experiences are
positive and engaging. We provide a person-centered
approach and focus our offer of tailored support to match
your individual needs.
The Learning Support Team can ensure that we are here to
support your academic journey here at DCG. The types of
support we offer are:
• Support at interview (if requested at application).
• Support planning to establish what we need to do.
• Transitional support.
• In-class support.
• Mobility support.
• Note-taking.
• Communication support (including British Sign
Language).
• Specialist resources and equipment e.g. laptops with
specialist software, Dictaphones, and Livescribe pens etc.
• Counselling, well-being/resilience support.
• Modification of learning materials e.g. into Braille.
• Personal care.
• Exam access arrangements.
• Base rooms/Learning Support Trainers.
For further information: Learning Support Services
Exam Access Arrangements
Did you have exam support at school or another centre
of learning? Exam Access Arrangements (EAA) are
reasonable adjustments for students with a learning need,
medical condition, or disability to ensure they have the same
opportunity to be successful in exams and assessments.
At DCG, our team of experienced Inclusion Assessment
Specialists will work with you and your teachers to ensure
you get the right support, but you will need to help us by
providing information about the support you have had
previously – EAA from school does not automatically
transfer over to College.
Email: EAA@derby-college.ac.uk or visit the Learning
Support Base Room at your site to find out more.
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