{"content":[{"text":"What is a DSSR report? \n The DSSR report is the formal notification that the University’s \n Disability and Dyslexia Support Team sends to staff in your Faculty \n about your disability. The Disability and Dyslexia Support Team is \n part of the University’s Student Support and Wellbeing Service. \n Your DSSR report contains recommendations for how Faculty \n staff should support you as a disabled student – in other words, it \n explains what ‘reasonable adjustments’ we recommend that your \n Faculty should put in place to enable you to access your course. \n The purpose of the support recommended is to remove/reduce \n the disadvantage that you may experience in accessing your \n programme of study because of your disability. It is intended to \n ‘level the playing field’ but not to give you an advantage over other \n students. You will be asked to sign the DSSR report to confirm that \n you have agreed the content of it, that you have read this leaflet \n and that you give permission for it to be sent to your Faculty.","bbox":{"left":0.10101,"top":0.068508,"width":0.786745,"height":0.400479}},{"text":"What are the University’s legal obligations to disabled students? \n The Equality Act 2010 (and formerly the Disability Discrimination \n Act) states that a person has a disability if he or she ‘has a physical \n or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term \n adverse effect on [their] ability to carry out normal day-to-day \n activities’. \n It is unlawful, under this Act, to: \n • Discriminate (directly or indirectly) against disabled students \n • Harass or victimise disabled students \n In addition, crucially in this context, the University has a statutory \n duty to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ for disabled students \n where a provision, criterion or practice puts disabled students at a \n substantial disadvantage compared to those who are not disabled. \n The ‘reasonable adjustment’ may be to remove or alter the \n provision, criteria or practice or to provide an auxiliary aid or service \n to the disabled student to remove or reduce the disadvantage.","bbox":{"left":0.10101,"top":0.507819,"width":0.795214,"height":0.41476599999999997}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.092667,"top":0.959003,"width":0.009208999999999995,"height":0.016384999999999983}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}