To the UK students - help with the studies.

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I am moving to the UK and would love to know how is the situation there. I would like to ask you whether you have received professional help with your studies: how to cope with executive function deficit, how to improve the writing skills, and other difficulties that students with ASD often have.

Said in other words: In your own experience, does the british educational system offer support for ASD students?

Thank you.

Do you mean at university level or primary/secondary school level?

If university level have a look at disabled students allowance (dsa). That's the standard support, you get an assessment and what you are granted depends on what you need. You can get speech to text things, laptops, printers, support assistants, money for taxis, extra time, own room etc.
If primary/secondary you'd need to look at the local councils website, as it varies between England and Wales and Scotland etc and I think between counties, so I'm not really sure.

Thank you. I meant high school students or university students (assuming there are no primary school children here).

Anyway, what I find when I look at the DSA website is which expenses they would pay you. But what I wanted to know with this post is whether the students really get optimal psycho-pedagogical assistance to cope with their problems with studying, such as planning, specific study techniques, test anxiety, writing skills, etc., often related to ASD.

I live in the UK (north yorkshire), when i was in high school i got a Teaching Assistant in my lessons, i even got sessions in the ELS at my high school (Extended Learning Support). there were only a few problems with this, none of it was direct help if you know what i mean, it was generic help, they would take notes for me (since im awful at that) and genereally just explain the work. they did this with every student they are assigned to, and they are assigned to students with many different things, for example some people had ADHD or learning disabilities and such, for me it was meant to be dyslexia and Aspergers but theres no difference to it, they heavily suspected me of aspergers...so im told it was partially for that, although they didn't really tell me till towards the end of high school when i overheard it. so the problem is that the support they give isn't specialised, they weren't trained to be able to deal with specific problems, just a standard way of helping.


in college (thats just before university in england, its also known as sixth form or year 12 and year 13) they gave me a 1-to-1 tutor, halfway through the first year, again this tutor was un-specialised so helped with assignment work by simply explaining it and helping me write some of it. it seems that the help gets less and less in each stage, but im told that in uni ill be able to get some equipment on a "disability allowance" that are meant to help with dyslexia and such (im diagnosed with severe dyslexia, they honestly have no idea how i made it this far academically) im not sure what you get for ASD and Aspergers and such, although i suppose ill find out soon, as im being tested officially later this month

Thank you for sharing your experience, Randomeu.

I find it positive that you had that help, although they missed to work in the problem itself: help you read/write better. It's possible, although it takes a lot of work.

That's what I'm suspecting. Most students get only superficial help. Let's see if someone else has a different experience.

Maybe it's just not the right term in english. I meant, some intervention that works in the core of the difficulties of people with ASD: training to get better at executive functions such as planing; providing tools so that they can work efficiently and independently, knowing their strengths and weaknesses and strategies to go over them.

Clinical psychologist often work in the social/emotional areas, but this I am talking purely about education. I have studied that and I'm seeing that no much professionals work on it. Such a shame.

Ahh, I get you now. You can get something like that. I had a person that would help me plan out the week and month. I was offered time for them to help me study and the other stuff you mentioned. This was all paid for by the dsa.