We offer specialised advice for the students and this can be anything from, you know, not knowing what they want to do after they graduate through to 'How do I get work experience?'. But then if they want to focus on anything to do with their disability, it can be things such as 'How do I disclose to an employer that I have a disability?', whether a role is suitable for them. 

We also have recently introduced OxAbility, which is an internship programme purely designed for students with a disability to get experience.

There are all kinds of accommodations that can be made. Some of them are around assessments, so things like extra time in exams or extensions on deadlines. And then around teaching there are things like providing structured reading lists, sending out handouts in advance so that students have a chance to look at them beforehand, and even meeting students in advance if they're going to be in a new room, just so that they know where they can sit.

The most common types of support that are requested and needed are often a lot of small things that add up to have a big impact.
Access to recorded lectures, accessing teaching materials in different formats, perhaps help with navigating lecture lists or reading lists, maybe some assistance with accessing library facilities. 

If you can apply for Disabled Students Allowance, get it! I was able to get a computer through Disabled Students Allowance and assistive software and I've been able to have specialist mentoring, which has been so helpful.

Getting to talk with the educational psychologist and then getting to talk with the disability advisor, and that sort of support has been really, really helpful and given me things that I can read in my own time to help me to understand myself a little bit better.

I've received mainly like support with like one-to-one study sessions, working out kind of revision techniques and tools that work best for me. There's always been as much support as I wanted to take. So it's kind of like up to me to like choose when I had my one-to-one sessions and I had like one a week that I can choose to take if I want to. There's always been a time where I can book one in if I need and in quite short notice as well sometimes.

I was able to receive a flexible deadline and she suggested whether I wanted to have the opportunity to like be able to,
to eat those snacks in lectures so, so I don't have like a sugar crash.

I received prioritised reading lists so I know which reading is most important to focus on. [For] inaccessible documents which won't translate from like text to speech or might be in like a difficult reading format, the Library Services help to get an accessible version.

The Bodleian Libraries operate under the social model of disability and we want our services to be accessible at the point of access.
So there's a variety of things such as digitisation services freely available to our readers, a vast array of digital collections,
different study spaces. So if you prefer to work with natural light or if you prefer to work in a quiet area, that's all part of the regular business-as-usual provision that you don't have to ask for support.

And it can be things like making sure there's good levels of visual contrast in our environments to make sure that students with visual impairments can navigate and access those environments. Liaising with departments to try and find areas for somebody to take some time out to be quiet where lighting is low and sounds are low and things like that. So there's a whole range of things. 

If anyone has managed to be accepted to study at Oxford, it's because we really believe that they will succeed and we're here to help with that.