Claim form
Students looking to claim costs relating to their General Allowance or Travel Allowance should complete this form and return it with their receipts.
Download Claim for Reimbursement form for 2023/24 academic year (PDF)
Disability Evidence Form
To be completed and returned by both the student and a medical professional where the student isn’t able to give us enough evidence of their disability.
Download Disability Evidence form (PDF - 490KB)
Request for Temporary DSAs Support Form
To be completed and returned where a university or college can’t give support and the student has submitted a formal appeal.
Download Request for Temporary DSAs Support form (PDF - 39.7KB)
Additional Sources of Funding/advice for students
Hardship Fund (apply via your university or college):
gov.uk/extra-money-pay-university/university-and-college-hardship-funds
Other organisations that provide additional funding/advice:
DSA information
Student Reviews of Access 1st service:
access-1st.co.uk/reviews
Government website:
gov.uk/disabled-students-allowances-dsas
Additional funding for DSA students:
Please contact your Disability Team at your Higher Education provider regarding hardship funding, or bursaries that may be available via your institution.
Data storage:
Students are advised to ‘back up’ electronic resources and course work frequently, to avoid loss of material if your computer hard drive becomes corrupted. Data can be backed up using an external hard drive (available from your supplier at cost to you), or via use of an online ‘cloud’ storage facility. Some free ‘cloud’ storage suppliers are:
Useful apps:
- Dragon Dictation: free voice recognition app to quickly transcribe reminders, to¬dos, notes etc.
- Evernote: note taking and organisation app Reimbursement items
Documentation:
- Disability Rights Commission: drc.org.uk
- National Union of Students: nus.org.uk
- Disability Alliance: disabilityrights.org.uk
- Equality act:: gov.uk/definition-of-disability-under-equality-act-2010
Accessibility and Technology
This site is open access with various resources from PDF downloads to videos:
washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Technology/charge.html
Accessibility from Google:
google.com/accessibility
Charities:
- Anxiety UK - National charity helping people with Anxiety - Anxiety UK
- Thomas Pocklington - pocklington-trust.org.uk/student-support/resources-for-university-students/disabled-students-allowances/
- Scope - scope.org.uk/search/?query=dsa
- RNID - rnid.org.uk/information-and-support/benefits/help-in-education/
- RNIB - rnib.org.uk/search/site/dsa