Reaching out for help

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Case Studies Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Recognising the signs and reaching out for help Image shows two people clasping each other’s hands. Mental health can affect anyone at any time; approximately […]

Intermission

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Time out from Uni due to physical health At university, you can suspend your studies owing to medical reasons or other serious causes. Different universities call […]

Part-time Schooling

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Part-time Schooling: When I think back to my experience of part-time schooling, I wish I’d identified what was difficult about full-time schooling and asked for the […]

Access arrangements during admissions

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Access arrangements during admissions Throughout my application to Cambridge, I was painfully aware of the need to make sure I flagged up my additional access requirements […]

Double Time

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Part-time studies at University When I started Cambridge, I knew I was chronically ill, but I wasn’t sure what the problem was. I studied my first […]

Reintegrating into full-time education after missing school

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Reintegrating into Full-Time Education after Missing School: Near the end of Year 9, I began suffering from a nerve pain condition, something that wasn’t diagnosed for […]

Disabled Access Schemes

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Disabled Access Schemes: Applying to uni can be pretty scary when you’re from a non-standard background. I am first-generation, from a working class background – there […]

Applying for DSA

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Applying for DSA Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) is essentially what it says on the tin, it is money provided by the government to cover any extra […]

ADHD diagnosis

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X ADHD diagnosis: Content Note: this article contains a brief reference to LGBT-phobia and violence, and to suicide. “No way, you were never a problem as a […]

Disability friendly internship

Home About Us Introduction Meet the Team Contact Us Who ‘counts’ as disabled? Resources Advice Articles Disability 101 Disability 101: Disability information Mentoring Get involved Safeguarding and Legal X Disability friendly internship In my final year at university I came across an internship scheme for disabled students and graduates called Change 100. The scheme is […]