Step 1: Draft Report

You will have been given the option to receive a draft of your report during your assessment. If you decided to receive a draft, it will normally be sent by email within 5 working days of your assessment. If there is a delay, your Assessor will contact you.

Please read the draft report and let your Assessor know if you are happy for it to be distributed or if you have suggestions for changes as soon as possible.

You need to respond within 5 working days of the date the draft report was sent. After this time, your Assessor will assume that you are happy with the report and the final version will be sent out.

Step 2: Final Report

Within 1 working day of the above deadline or within 10 working days of your assessment (if you did not wish to receive a draft), the final report will be sent by email to:

• You,
• Your funding body (Student Finance England (SFE), NHS Bursaries, etc.), and
• The Disability Officer at your HE Institution (if previously agreed).

Step 3: Letter from Your Funding Authority

Your funding body will consider the report. They will then write to you to advise you of their decision and to tell you what they have agreed to and what to do next.

You must wait for your funding body to write to you. Do not order any equipment until told to do so by your funding body.

Your university may be happy to provide any Non-Medical helper support recommended in the report before you receive the letter from your funding body. You should contact your university's disability team to discuss this.

Step 4: Organising Equipment / Support

Follow the instructions in the letter from your funding body. It is your responsibility to do this. It will not be automatically done by the funding body, your institution, or us.

The letter usually advises you to contact the supplier/s authorised by your funding body. Section E of your report provides all the contact details you will need.

Equipment suppliers will agree a delivery date with you once you place your order.

Non-Medical Help suppliers will agree an initial meeting with you to discuss how best to provide the support authorised by your funding body.

Step 5: Assistive Technology Training

If the supplier of the equipment is also delivering the assistive technology training, they may wish to arrange a training date when you place your order.

If a separate training company is delivering the training, contact the training company and arrange a training date as soon as you have agreed delivery of the equipment.

The training is very important as it will give you the knowledge to use the technology quickly and effectively in your studies. The training will focus on helping you to incorporate the technology into your personal learning style rather than focusing on functionality. This helps students to see how a software function can help them with a particular task or difficulty which may not be obvious from the menu title.