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New Rights to Learn
The Disability Discrimination Act Part 4 gives all providers of post-school education a legal duty not to discriminate against disabled students, either by treating them less favourably for a reason related to their disability or by failing to make a reasonable adjustment for them. The Department for Education and Skills has already produced Guidance for LEAs and Adult Education Providers. This booklet complements the original Guidance in that it is written specifically for full- and part-time tutors in adult and community education who are not specialists in working with disabled students, but who may well have individual students with disabilities or learning difficulties on their courses.
The Guidance begins with a brief summary of the Disability Discrimination Act Part 4. It then goes on to describe how different disabilities can affect learning. This is followed by practical advice on how tutors can best work with students with a range of different disabilities in order to ensure that they gain access to learning and are given appropriate support.
The entire document can be downloaded as a PDF file using the link below.
