DSA - result. (Possibly, result!)
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baratronI got a letter on Monday saying that Kingston Council had approved everything in my Disabled Students' Allowance Statement of Needs, and I could go ahead and start buying the stuff. This is something of a result after previous incidents in what seems to have become a saga.
So I went in the Disability Office today and Steve placed the order for the stuff. I'm getting a chair (cost = £800!) and a height-adjustable desk, and a "bookchair" for holding textbooks while I type, and a kind of tape recorder thing - only this being the 21st century, it uses solid state memory and outputs audio files directly to the computer. They are funding my mental health mentor and a library support worker, both for 20 hours. W00t. And there's £250 for books and photocopying and stuff like that, which I am planning to use all of because it's been allocated. I need, at the very least, a better organic textbook, because the only ones I have are either very basic or too advanced.
I would love to hope that this is going to be The Start Of A New Era with respect to me and studying, but the main thing that's holding me back at the moment is my brain: I'm still so depressed and stupid and slow. I have to try to get one of the four(!) appointments available tomorrow with my doctor to discuss depression and what I should do with drugs. Bah.
So I went in the Disability Office today and Steve placed the order for the stuff. I'm getting a chair (cost = £800!) and a height-adjustable desk, and a "bookchair" for holding textbooks while I type, and a kind of tape recorder thing - only this being the 21st century, it uses solid state memory and outputs audio files directly to the computer. They are funding my mental health mentor and a library support worker, both for 20 hours. W00t. And there's £250 for books and photocopying and stuff like that, which I am planning to use all of because it's been allocated. I need, at the very least, a better organic textbook, because the only ones I have are either very basic or too advanced.
I would love to hope that this is going to be The Start Of A New Era with respect to me and studying, but the main thing that's holding me back at the moment is my brain: I'm still so depressed and stupid and slow. I have to try to get one of the four(!) appointments available tomorrow with my doctor to discuss depression and what I should do with drugs. Bah.
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Date: 2009-01-23 12:54 am (UTC)The "slow" is a comment relating to my coursework. Everything has been taking hours and hours longer than I think it should have done. A problem sheet that I thought would take 2-3 hours has taken over 12 hours and still isn't finished. Just getting up in the morning, washing my face, cleaning my teeth, taking essential meds and putting clothes on has been taking an hour rather than the 20 minutes it usually does. I seem to be moving and thinking at less than half speed. It's horrible.
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Date: 2009-01-23 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 08:22 am (UTC)You're still not stupid, of course. Even a semi-functioning H-L has more brains in her little finger than some folks :>