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DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE

The Disability Resource Centre (DRC) provides a confidential and accessible service for disabled students and those staff supporting them. It provides advice, guidance and support for prospective and current students. The DRC has a specialist advisory team who offer appointments, pre-admissions visits and the development of individual support plans. The DRC works with Colleges and Departments to ensure that students receive the right support during their studies. As well as providing advice and support the DRC co-ordinates practical individual non-medical help (NMH) including specialist mentoring and study skills, notetaking and study assistance. The DRC is located, with other frontline central student services, in the Student Services Centre.

DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE – IMAGES OF SUPPORT
The following photos are a selection of disabled student appointments with Disability Advisers or Non-Medical Helpers providing mentoring or study skills sessions, together with one image of the DRC entrance.



DISABLED STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES
The Disability Resource Centre exists to support all students with disabilities at the University of Cambridge in lots of different ways. The support we offer helps students to manage their disabilities and fully engage in their university experience – both academically and socially.? The following articles provide an insight into life at Cambridge from disabled students’ perspectives and highlight their experiences of how the Disability Resource Centre assisted them during their time at the University.?These articles were published in “Varsity”, a?newspaper written by Cambridge students for the Cambridge community.

1. It explains so much; finding liberation in diagnosis –?A student describes receiving a diagnosis of dyspraxia and ADHD and the relief of finally understanding why he had struggled for so many years.
Author: Ferdy Holley
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2. I wish I had accepted my disability earlier –?A student discusses acceptance and the importance of asking for help when you need it.
Author: Lois Wright
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3. Invisible illness Cambridge: Postural tachycardia syndrome –?A student details the reality of living with a disability and the help the Disability Resource Centre provided him with.
Author: Myles O’Gorman
