DSA Funded Support
At Scholars Mentoring Company we provide exceptional, tailored support which is unique to each and every individual. We help remove any potential barriers to learning and enhance every students’ educational experience.
We provide tailor made 1:1 non-medical support for students wishing to or who are currently studying a Higher Education course offered by; Colleges, Universities or Distance Learning across the UK.
We offer a content rich comprehensive “OUT REACH” service to our students at a venue most comfortable for the student.
- Specialist mentoring (Mental Health)
- Specialist mentoring (Autism)
- Specialist mentoring (Health conditions/disabilities)
- Enhanced Study Assistance Support
We are registered with DSA / Department for Education as a Non-medical help support provider for disabled students in the UK.
Our Company and all of our Specialist Mentoring Services adhere to the rules and regulations specified by the Department for Education and associated organisations. We are compliant with the highest of respect to the requirements of DSA Framework. We are committed to protection of Privacy, Confidentiality and Security for every person associated with Scholars Mentoring Company in any way what so ever.
Specialist Mentoring Support
Specialist mentors provide highly specialist, specifically tailored, 1 to 1 support which helps students address the barriers to learning created by a particular impairment. This support is primarily provided for students with mental-health conditions, ADD/ADHD or ASDs.
The support could address a range of issues, for example, coping with anxiety and stress situations, how to deal with concentration difficulties, time management, prioritising workload and creating a suitable work-life balance.
Specialist Mentors should not act as advocates or counsellors and are expected to provide support that focuses on enabling the student to access their academic studies, rather than on the management or treatment of a specific condition.
Their role is to help students recognise the barriers to learning created by their impairment and support them in developing strategies to address these barriers, particularly at times of transition, for example, when starting at university or when planning to move on from it.
For some students this support will need to be on-going while for others it might be gradually phased out or only be required at certain points of their course.
Mentors Skills: In depth knowledge and experience of the particular disability, with understanding of the particular demands of study in HE and close working relationship with other support services both inside and outside the HEP and recognition of when there is a need to refer to other services.
Study Skills Support
This specialist 1 to 1 support addresses the issues which some students might have in acquiring, recalling and retaining information in written and spoken language as well as the range of memory, organisational, attention and numeracy difficulties that students with ASD often face when working in an HE context.
This support is primarily provided for students with an ADD/ADHD or an ASD. This support should aim to develop students’ skills and to develop independent learning. It should be tailored to a student’s individual needs and professionals delivering the support should set out clear goals and timescales for achieving these goals.
For some students this support will need to be on-going while for others it might be gradually phased out or only be required at certain points of their course.
Mentors Skills: Substantial experience of working with students with the relevant disability for example ASD on a 1 to 1 basis, also experience of working with these disabilities in an educational/learning environment and a good working knowledge of assistive technologies and related AT study skills strategies.
When working with people on the autism spectrum, an in-depth knowledge and understanding of autistic thinking and learning is needed. An awareness of the strengths which students on the autism spectrum can bring to a learning situation and the skills to help students to make use of these strengths and overcome barriers to learning.
