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<p>In February 2018 officials from the Department for Education wrote to the following
organisations seeking their views on whether it should still be necessary for students
with specific learning difficulties to have a post-16 diagnostic assessment when applying
for Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs): The Association of Dyslexia Specialists
in Higher Education (ADSHE), The British Dyslexia Association, The British Psychological
Society, Dyslexia Action, The Helen Arkell Institute, The National Association of
Disability Practitioners, the National Union of Students, the Real Group, the University
of Southampton, and The Professional Association for teachers and assessors of students
with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)/the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee.</p><p>
</p><p>It is inevitable that some of the organisations whose expert view we have sought
for this review will provide diagnostic assessments, training to become diagnostic
assessors or accreditation of that training, and will receive payment for those services.
We will be mindful of that in reaching a final decision on the review.</p>
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