Disability Services
Disability Services provides advice and recommends academic support to disabled students and postgraduate researchers at the University.
We work closely with academic departments and services across the University to improve access and navigate barriers for disabled students.
Register with Disability Services
To get support:
Support we offer
We recommend academic adjustments to your learning and exams. This might include:
- exam arrangements (extra time, use of a PC, timetabling changes)
- extensions to deadlines
- permission to record lectures
- receiving material in advance
- ongoing advice throughout your time at Leeds.
Find out about all the support available to disabled students at Leeds.
Video transcript: Welcome to Disability Services
Who we support
Disability is a very broad term. It encompasses a range of physical, mental, neurological and chronic conditions. This means we support a large number of students and postgraduate researchers, including remote learners and degree apprentices.
In law, a person has a disability if their condition has a substantial and long term effect on their daily activities.
For a student, this might include taking notes, writing, researching, reading, and moving between multiple locations.
This includes people who:
- are D/deaf or hearing impaired
- are blind or visually impaired
- have a physical disability, and/or mobility difficulties
- have a specific learning difficulty (e.g. example, dyslexia or dyspraxia)
- have a neurodevelopmental condition (e.g. AD(H)D)
- have a neurological condition (e.g. MS, epilepsy, Tourette Syndrome, stammer)
- are autistic
- have a mental health condition
- have a long-term medical condition (e.g. chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, diabetes, cancer, HIV)
- have a combination of these.
If you have a temporary health condition, such as a broken bone or short-term illness, please get in touch with the disability contact in your school.
Contact us
- Email Disability Services: disability@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone Disability Services: +44 (0)113 3433927
- Attend a drop-in or make an online appointment
- Follow Disability Services on Instagram
- Follow Disability Services on Medium
To learn more about free software and apps to support your learning, email our Assistive Technology Advisor, Thomas Starkey: t.m.starkey@leeds.ac.uk.
Find us on campus
- Address: Disability Services, Ground floor, Chemistry West Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT.
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- Watch the video of how to find Disability Services on campus.
Directions from Leeds University Union:
- With your back to the Students’ Union Building, walk towards the Great Hall and the Clothworkers’ Arch
- Pass through the arch and continue through the courtyard
- Continue straight with the School of Media and Communication on your left
- Disability Services is in the Chemistry West Building at the end of the path.
Other sources of support
- The Transcription Centre provides academic materials in alternative and accessible formats.
- Disabled Students’ Allowance – extra funding to support you in your studies.
- Funding for disabled students