Additional Learning Needs

Learner Supports – Helping You To Succeed

Why Would I need Support?

• Have you struggled with learning in the past?
• Have you worried about having the skills to complete your course?
• Have you a disability impacting your ability to participate?

Adult Education Service Balbriggan and Swords can provide supports to individuals with a range of learning needs.

We can support you learning with Reasonable Accommodation options, if applicable.

• Small group learning tutorials
• 1:1 support
• Guidance support

Reasonable Accommodation – Who can apply?

Learners who have a disability, mental health condition, learning difficulty, significant illness or other conditions.

For example

• Blind/Visual Impairment
• Deaf/Hearing Impairment
• Mental Health Condition
• Physical Disability
• ADD/ADHD
• Autism Spectrum Disorders/ Asperger’s Syndrome
• DCD (Dyspraxia/Dysgraphia)
• Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia/Dyscalculia)
• General Learning Difficulties
• Significant on-going illness
• Neurological conditions eg. brain injury, speech and language disabilities

Examples of supports available:

We can provide support through:

• Assistive Technologies
• iPad/Laptop
• Adapted Furniture
• Additional Equipment/Resources

How to apply