Disability support
Welcome to Disability Services
Disability Advisers work alongside you to identify how your disability or condition impacts your teaching, learning, assessment and access to physical and digital resources, and to help coordinate support and adjustments.
Disability Services work with students who have a disability or condition which impacts on their study. This includes students or applicants who have:
- Specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia
- Ongoing mental health difficulties
- Long-term medical conditions such as diabetes, cancer, Crohn's disease
- Social communication difficulties such as autism
- ADHD
- Physical or mobility difficulties
- Hearing impairments or hearing loss
- Visual impairments
Current announcements
Exams in May 2025
If you have exam support in your Personal Learning Support Plan, please look out for an email in early April 2025 about how the adjustments will be made.
If you do not have exam recommendations and you are concerned about the impact of a disability or long-term condition on your exams, please make an appointment with Disability Services as soon as possible and before Friday 4 April 2025 - this is the cut off point for registering with the service and providing supporting information ahead of the exam period.
There are further details about the support available on the exam web page.
Current students
If you are studying at the University, please see the disability related information about teaching, assessment, exams, placements, support workers, DSA and more. There's also guidance for international students and apprentices and information about specific disabilities.
Applicants
If you are interested in or applying to the University of Huddersfield and you have a disability, find out more about preparing for University and the support once you are on your course.
Disability Support
Find out about the range of support on offer through Disability Services
Information for University staff
Find information for staff working with disabled students, including guidelines, disability-related policies and procedures.
Information for DSA Needs Assessors
Find out what you need to know ahead of carrying out a needs assessment, including details of our in-house Learning Support Service and NMH rates.