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Helping you meet the costs of learning: funding for disabled students 2006-2007
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This Guide gives an overview of the funding available from August 2006 for disabled learners and is a useful guide to practitioners giving advice to others. This booklet uses the term 'disabled learners' to refer to learners with a wide range of impairments, such as those who have sensory impairments, physical impairments, mental health difficulties, dyslexia, autistic spectrum disorders, epilepsy, diabetes, etc.This booklet provides information about the different types of financial support that is available to disabled learners, including general financial support and funding specifically available for disabled people. It also summarises information about getting welfare benefits as a disabled student.