Disability support

The Disability Advice and Support (DAS) service supports students with a wide range of physical and sensory disabilities, medical conditions and specific learning differences (SpLD). This includes, but is not limited to:

• Human support, such as providing a note taker for teaching sessions
• Digital voice recorder
• Specialist study tutor to help improve and plan the structure of essays
• IT software

Each faculty has a disability contact whose role is to help you access disability support and ensure that you are getting appropriate assistance during your studies.

If you had a learner support arrangements meeting when you applied to DMU, then you may already have met your faculty disability contact (FDC), if not then a list of current faculty disability coordinators is below:  

Art, Design and Humanities
Rob Cummings, Student Support Co-ordinator
T: (0116) 250 6160 E: rcummings@dmu.ac.uk| 

Victoria Bilbao, Student Support Manager 
T: (0116) 257 7721 E: vbilbao@dmu.ac.uk| 

Donna Neal, Deputy Student Support Manager  
T: (0116) 257 7003 E: dneal@dmu.ac.uk| 

Business and Law
Tracey Lee-Adams, Faculty Manager
T: (0116) 250 6292 E: tlee-adams@dmu.ac.uk|

Health and Life Sciences
Faculty Disability Co-ordinator
T: (0116) 257 7884 E: hlsdisabilitysupport@dmu.ac.uk|

Technology  
Leanne Franklin, Faculty Disability Co-ordinator  
T: (0116) 250 6114 E: lfranklin@dmu.ac.uk|

Disability Advice and Support and the Faculty Disability Co-ordinators (FDCs) work together to support you. They are provided with a copy of your diagnostic assessment and/or needs assessment report. The FDCs inform your course team of the recommendations in your personal report so they can support you during your studies.

Libraries and Learning Services

Alongside the support provided to students with disabilities by DAS, the Libraries and Learning Service also has a disability support team who are available to provide assistance to users with a disability, a specific learning difference, such as dyslexia, or medical condition that affects their ability to study. 

The services provided by the support team includes:

• Parking spaces for Blue Badge holders
• Ramp access to Kimberlin Library
• Automatic doors
• Extended loans from the library
• Provision of assistive technologies
• Access to a series of useful leaflets and guides