For any student that declares a medical condition or disability to the University, many of the reasonable adjustments are embedded into the curriculum. The Academic and Wellbeing Guide has been developed to explain how students can utilise the adjustments and the support that can be accessed throughout the University:
Academic and Wellbeing Support | Student Wellbeing Centre | (Internal)
These reasonable adjustments should be implemented by the school where possible within the context of the school and course mode of delivery, without this having to be confirmed in a formal document by Student Wellbeing.
For a student that requires reasonable adjustments that are outside the remit of the Academic and Wellbeing Support, Student Wellbeing will work with the student to create a Personalised Academic Study Support (PASS) Plan. Please be aware that PASS plans are shared on a school based level, so this will be shared with the specific school that the course the student is enrolled on belongs to.
The school will be able to see student’s disability category and whether they have been sent the Academic and Wellbeing Support Guide or whether they have a PASS in place via One Uni under the wellbeing tab.
For further information on supporting students with a Personalised Academic Study Support plan please click on the relevant guides below to find some suggested strategies, including general and teaching strategies, for those involved in teaching and mentoring students with various diagnoses. It is worth noting that as students can often have more than one diagnosis multiple guides may be relevant for supporting these students.
Please also be aware that these are basic tips for good practice and this is not an exhaustive or prescriptive list as diagnoses will affect each student differently. If you would like more information or have any queries regarding this then please contact the Student Wellbeing Centre on studentwellbeing@lincoln.ac.uk or call us on 01522 88 6400.
Please note that students on the current PASS Plan system will be contacted as we move them over to the new system. This will be implemented over a few months and so there will be some students who have PASS Plans and some on the new system where it is written into the curriculum.
