Disability CHAT/HELP Thread

I am so pleased that this thread is so busy

This forum is generally pretty quiet anyway.

Hey!

Thanks for your tag in the admire post. That was really nice, the community of people who genuinely want to listen and help on this site has been a real source of support.

In the end, I received an email from them yesterday (after I had checked my rights and informed them I was considering legal action) where they made a revised offer of the complaint response.

Clearly, someone had dropped the ball and not checked about the circumstances of my course fees and the college must have felt that they were "in a position" (either that or genuinely recognising the disruption this course has caused for me)

They have not only offered to refund the course costs to the SFE and put me through the course (having my final exams the day after results day haha) but also arranged an ex-gratia payment of the course fees directly to me! I was flabbergasted!

Currently in varying levels of shock, I have a lot of work to do, but just taken aback.

Thanks so much for your support. Very much appreciate it!

@SonoLuma That's good to hear.

Just work hard to make sure they really value you next year yeah?

Don't let you disability define you!

Thank you! I have received marks back for all of my maths assignments today and they are almost 100% across the board (apart from one which is 99%)

Last to do is my exams and then I can get started on my next course materials! I hope to go into a PhD in future so I intend to make a good impression!

I intend to leave this behind me and hopefully get into a more relaxed environment with this next course, so hopefully the issue of disability won't even be an issue. (fingers crossed!)

Thanks for your advice!

That's great news.

I'm sure you'll be wonderful Dr SonoLuma.

It doesn't matter if your disability is an issue, it's part of who you are and there will always be TSR here to support.

Thanks so much! You're awesome

"Dr." oh man, it's a long way off, but I cannot wait! It's like a stamp from society saying "well done, you have made a real recognised contribution to science!"

It's so exciting!

I'm crap at keeping up with contact with people, but I promise I will let you know how things are going in future

Have a great one!

Awe thank you, your story is one of positivity when it comes to achievement for people with conditions. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Hello, 04MR17 - this thread is an awesome idea; thank you for taking the time to create it.

Well, I just recently received my disabled persons railcard.