Support for Students with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities
The Study Skills Centre and Learning Support
Our commitment to Students
Penwith College is fully committed to an Equality& Diversity Policy which includes a provision for people with disabilities, and learning needs.
Our responsibilities are to:
- Assess and understand students' needs
- Give appropriate advice, guidance and support
- Provide fully qualified, trained helpful staff
- Provide an accessible campus with sufficient resources
What support is available?
If you have a physical disability or sensory impairment, specific or non-specific learning disability, or are recovering from a mental illness, we can help by providing individually designed programmes.
Support ranges from:
- British Sign Language trained support workers
- educational psychologists
- dyslexia assessments
- dyslexia specialists
- speech therapy
- counselling
- learning Support Assistants/Learning Support Workers
- relevant support with your college work
- additional teaching hours
- stress busting
- tutors for the deaf
- sensory equipment
- smaller teaching groups for those with a learning disability
- helping you to achieve your true potential
- gain Confidence
- exam techniques
- specialised equipment and resources and additional exam time.
If you found school difficult and needed help to get your work done you might be worried about starting a college course. This is absolutely natural and at Penwith College we will help to make the leap from school to college much easier for you.
We support students with a range of needs including specific learning difficulties, processing difficulties, English as a second language, physical and or sensory difficulties and dyslexia. If you feel that you would benefit from some study skills sessions, or if you had support at school and feel you will need some help at college, then we are here for you.
You will see a tutor on a one to one basis in a relaxed and quiet environment. We will talk to you and find out how much help you will need and what sort of support would be most suitable for you.
We can offer you one to one sessions throughout the week or in some cases you could have extra help in the classroom. If necessary we can make special arrangements for exams, for example, extra time, someone to read or write for you or the use of a computer. We can also provide specially modified equipment for students with physical difficulties.
We want you to enjoy your time at Penwith College and to be successful in whatever course you have decided to study. We can do this more easily, however, if you tell us about any needs you have before you start your course. So come and talk to us and find
out just how much we can do to help you make the most of your time here.
If you would like to talk to someone about your needs, please contact:
Catherine Eustace, Learning Support Co-ordinator on 01736 335000