Personal Learning Support Plans (PLSP)

A Personal Learning Support Plan is completed in consultation and agreement between the student and the Disability Advisor. These plans take a person-centred approach and look at the disability the student has disclosed and the effects that it could have on the specific subject they are studying and mode of study e.g. face to face, online, blended.

Therefore two students with apparently the same issue may have different plans, depending on whether their course involves placement, fieldwork, group-work or any other variable. It matches solutions to students on an individual contextualised basis.

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PLSPs can be updated throughout the year. If in your dealings with the student, they notify you of a change of circumstances that may be relevant to their PLSP, (for example a change in medication), you can ask them to get in touch with their Disability Advisor (the person who drafted their PLSP) to discuss if they need any changes making. With the student’s permission, the PAT can pass this information to the Disability Advisor, if the student prefers that. However, the student has to be involved with their support plan and any changes made to it.

PATs role in PLSPs
How do I know if a student has a PLSP?

As a PAT you will be informed if a student has a Personal Learning Support Plan in place and will be able to see the summary of institutional support. You are, as a PAT, responsible for passing that information on to the relevant Module Tutors for each semester. The Summary of Support covers a few key areas. Firstly it details the agreed requirements relating to extensions on coursework submission dates (without penalty) and gives details of the university’s agreed alternative assessment arrangements.

A PLSP may also indicate the information which the student wishes staff to know about their disability. It may also indicate appropriate support for their teaching and learning.

The aim is to help the student to work within an agreed framework and give the tutors enough information that they can understand the context in which help and support may be appropriate.

As a PAT, a PLSP is indicated by a flag in the Student Support column of the PAT student list. You can click on this link to take you to the Students’ record and then you can download their summary of support in word format.

As a Module Tutor, the PAT for the student is the person who will notify you that a student has a support plan. They should pass on the Summary of Support to you. This could include an outline of the issue the student has and the way it affects their studies. It should also include modifications to be made in class, details of permitted extension parameters and alternative exam arrangements, where appropriate.

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The PLSP is written and agreed in consultation with the student. The means of communication may differ, telephone, email and/or VC may be used but the outcome is the same. The student has participated in the agreement of the support requirement and has agreed to their part of that equation – namely maintaining an on-going dialogue with the institution regarding their support needs.

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