Students with either a specific learning difference (e.g. dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, or ADHD) or autism can have regular sessions with a specialist study skills tutor, funded through Disabled Students Allowance (DSA).
Tutorials may help with:
- Reading, note taking and research skills
- Assignment writing for different types of academic assignment: planning, structure, writing style, referencing and proof-reading strategies
- Presentation skills
- Spelling strategies
- Grammar and vocabulary
- Exam and revision strategies
- Memory techniques
Study skills support is different from other academic support. Your specialist study skills tutor will tailor the individual sessions to meet your individual needs by considering the following:
- How you study, and trying out different strategies
- What motivates you in your studies
- Tutorials will be well structured, help you to set goals for your progress
- Sessions will be manageable and taught at your pace
- Strategies will be repeated where necessary, these may be related to reading, writing and other forms of communication
You will be allocated a qualified specialist tutor who will give you one-to-one tutorials. In your first session you and your tutor will decide on learning objectives to cover in the tutorials. Tutorials will:
- Teach you visual, listening or movement strategies
- Be based around your current assignments, but your tutor will not proof-read your assignment or teach you your subject
- Normally be weekly for one hour, but we may be able to recommend more tutoring hours if you need them.