Non-Medical Helper's Allowance

What is Specialist Mentoring?

Specialist mentors provide highly specialist, specifically tailored, one-to-one support which helps students address the barriers to learning created by a particular impairment. This support is primarily provided for students with mental health conditions or autism spectrum conditions.

It can provide:

• Organisation and Time Management
• Beginning academic tasks
• Structuring and planning
• Planning ahead
• Prioritising
• Support with building social skills
• Management of anxiety/work load
• Confidential emotional support, advice and guidance
• Provide signposting/referrals to other services
• Help with coming to terms with a diagnosis
• Provide therapeutic interventions i.e. managing anxiety/stress (perfectionism, procrastination, black and white thinking, fear of failure etc)

It cannot provide:

• Counselling/therapy
• Academic support in relation to content/proofreading
• Advocacy services

Email: mentoring@swansea.ac.uk

Specialist Study Skills provide one-to-one support for students with Specific Learning Difficulties, Autism Spectrum Conditions, medical and mental health conditions, and have been recommended Specialist one-to-one Study Skills Support by a Needs Assessor.

What can Study Skills offer?

• Individualised learning plan.
• Explore and understand your learning style.
• Breaking down and understanding assignment briefs.
• Developing and refining your university level research skills including how to access information.
• Organise your ideas.
• Developing strategies to balance workload and meet deadlines.
• Planning and structuring assignments.
• Essay writing and report writing.
• Revision strategies and exam techniques.
• Presentation skills.
• Reflective and critical writing.
• Time-management strategies.

What can’t Study Skills offer?

• Proofreading; Your tutor can help you develop effective proofreading strategies but cannot proofread your work for you.
• Course-specific tuition

Email: study-skills@swansea.ac.uk

The Notetaking and Support Worker Scheme is run by the Disability Service. Notetaking support has been in place for many years, and has now grown to accommodate the needs of the increasing population of disabled students.

If you require Notetaking or a Support Worker and this has been recommended as part of your Needs Assessment, it is essential that you contact us as soon as possible.

How can Notetaking and the Support Worker Scheme help you?

• Notetaking Support – your Note Taker will attend lectures and take accurate, comprehensive notes, which will be sent to you by email within 48 hours of the lecture, seminar, tutorial having taken place. Notes will be handwritten or typed in the preferred format and style of the student.
• Sighted Assistant – will provide sighted assistance to visually impaired students to familiarise the student with the campus layout. Providing one to one mobility assistance to a student with a visual impairment helping them to navigate their way around campus. Meet student at an agreed location on campus and to accompany to lecture.
• Lab/Workshop Assistant – To provide assistance to students in the laboratory environment. To support the student in conducting and setting up experiments under instruction from the student. Following instructions from the student to prepare laboratory materials and specimens, prepare samples under instruction for testing and analysis etc. fetching and carrying Laboratory equipment.
• Reader/Scribe - Provide reading support to students. To read academic texts aloud to the student or to record whilst reading. To read work back to the student and to assist with proof reading.
• Practical Support Assistant – This role will help students organise their study and workload and assist students with time management such as timetabling and preparation for exams. The Practical Support Assistant can support the student by carrying books/bags and carrying equipment.

Email: notetaking@swansea.ac.uk