In England, what support the students at university, further education receive if they have autism or learning difficulties?

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Just that, what should I be asking for? What help is there available if you have a learning difficulty and are studying at the University, or a higher level course?

Also, can somebody please explain something? I thought all schools were required to provide some kind of assistance if a student had special needs? But over the years, when I have been asking around, some schools say they have no provision etc.? Is that legal?

One other thing, I had to fight so hard when I was on my course until I was kicked off. But one thing was that I can do things much more easily or early. Writing is so so difficult. Writing a 3000 word essay, are used to make me cry, literally. I would orally record what I wanted to put in my essay, send it to my mother and she would write, because I have such a hard time writing. I did the work myself one time and use dictation, and I had points taken off because as everyone knows, dictation makes mistakes and I can't check if the spelling is correct. Or the punctuation. They said they weren't taking off points, but they did. It is very likely that I have dyslexia. But I have no diagnosis for learning difficulties, so they were babies we're basing everything on my visual impairment. Visually impaired students are expected to write, they just are expected to use the laptop with technology. Something else that I don't have and I don't know how to use.

I wasn't educated in the UK, and I was educated at a special-needs school which also had classes for various levels of abilities, so I was never a source for learning disabilities, sorry that's what they call them in the US, learning difficulties. Was just put in the lower level, or allowed to do my work or early.

Oralee, no, you know spoken. I still don't know how to correct dictation mistakes.

And come to think of it, my last year in high school which I did at mainstream, I had a teacher of the visually impaired for one hour every day, along with speech, mobility, PT and OT put in, If I remember well, again, I did nearly everything orally. I think the homework I did write, I was given half of the work that the other students were given. And a lot of my work was different, I was allowed to watch Spanish television instead of reading books. I still find audio things much much easier. During my course that I was kicked off of, a lot of the materials are used to find information or things like seminars on YouTube and Podcasts

I like to read, but a lot of the time I don't understand what I'm reading if that makes sense. Even if it's in braille, large print, it doesn't matter. I have a real job to make sense of it. I don't know how to get books put into audio, or a way to read books for university? Any ideas what I could ask for?

A few of you mentioned a scribe and the reader, for example when I did the Greek test last month