Transcript Dyslexia Awareness

STUDENT WELLBEING SERVICE
Building Bridges: Successful
Transition and Innovative Practice.
Ann Musk, Jen Stewart, Laura Fletcher
Completed Students 2010-2012
Successful
other/personal reason
academic failure/no progress
other
transfer to another institution
unknown
health reasons
Financial reasons
gone into employ,emt
Death
Withdrawn Students 2010- 2012
1%
0%
4%
1%
Death
4%
9%
Financial reasons
gone into employment
26%
health reasons
other
other/personal reason
transfer to another institution
7%
academic failure/no progress
48%
unknown
Target Group
• Students with social/communication issues;
anxieties; integration; personal issues – no
diagnosis
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Mental Health issues
Transitional Issues
• Social Anxiety/stress - difficulties with crowded places;
orientation around campus
• Social communication – making friends; contact with new
people
• Academic interactions – how to behave/what is expected
• Independent living skills – living with flatmates; general
housekeeping; coping in a new environment
• Feelings of alienation; home sickness; removal of support
systems
• Lack of structure/continuity – new timetables each semester;
lots of independent study
Discussion
Suggestions for projects/solutions – in a perfect world, where money is no
object
– Consider the feedback provided before this workshop
– Draw on your own experience of transition
How to promote/advertise the support and projects available
Hard to reach groups may not access online media
Moving forward……
• Action points…..
Contacts
• Ann Musk: [email protected]
• Jen Stewart: [email protected]
• Laura Fletcher: [email protected]
• SWS website:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/students/wellbeing/