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

Feedback Survey

Disability Services welcome feedback regarding the service and the support students have received at the University. We use information gathered in the survey to ensure support is delivered in the most effective way.

Take the anonymous End of Year Survey 2025 and you can enter into a prize draw to win a £20.00 Love2Shop voucher.

The survey opens Mon 26^th May and the closing date for feedback is Friday 27 June at 5:00pm

Reapplying for the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA)

If you are one of the following and in receipt of DSA:

A Postgraduate
A Part-time student
A student not in receipt of Student Finance

Please remember you will need to reapply for DSA. If you need any help with this please contact Disability Services

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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.

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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.