Disabled Students' Allowances: Dyslexia
(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average cost to dyslexic students who received their diagnosis before they were 18 of the assessment required to allow them to be eligible for Disabled Students' Allowance.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 30th October 2017
All students applying for Disabled Students’ Allowances must provide medical evidence to confirm their eligibility.
Students with dyslexia must have an assessment or review assessment undertaken after their 16th birthday.
We do not hold information on costs.