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Category: <span>Tips</span>
October 5, 2026
What changes when you graduate?
At university, support often comes through a formal route. Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA, funding for study support such as mentoring and study skills) is for your studies, so it stops when your course does. At work, the responsibility moves to your employer.
That is a big shift. You may have had a named mentor or study skills tutor who knew your needs. Now you have a line manager (the person who directs your day-to-day work), who may know very little.
June 20, 2026
Read your needs assessment report carefully. It will outline exactly what support has been recommended and why. If anything is unclear, your DSA assessor or disability services advisor can explain it.
June 15, 2026
Self-advocacy is the ability to understand your own needs and communicate them effectively to others. It is one of the most valuable skills you can develop at university. It doesn’t come naturally to everyone, and it takes practice. But it’s something your mentoring sessions can actively help you build.
June 14, 2026
University isn’t just lectures and assignments. There’s a whole social dimension — group work, seminars, freshers events, shared accommodation, society meetings — that can feel like an entirely separate challenge.
June 13, 2026
Before a new term starts, read through the module handbook, look up the rooms and buildings you’ll need to be in, and check the timetable carefully.
June 12, 2026
One of the things students often find genuinely difficult is communicating their needs to academic staff. Whether it’s asking for an extension, explaining why you struggled in a seminar, or requesting adjustments to how feedback is given, these conversations can feel daunting.
June 11, 2026
A Specialist Mentor is a qualified professional who provides 1:1 support designed specifically around your individual needs, goals, and the challenges you’re experiencing at university.
June 10, 2026
Time blindness — the difficulty in sensing how much time has passed or how long a task will take- is one of the most commonly reported challenges for students with ADHD.
June 9, 2026
Instead of reading your notes, test yourself on them. Close the notes and try to write down everything you remember about a topic. Check what you got right and wrong. This is called active recall, and it’s one of the most evidence-backed revision techniques there is.
June 8, 2026
Task initiation, which is the ability to begin a task, is one of the executive functions that ADHD most commonly affects. The experience of knowing you need to do something, wanting to do it, and still being completely unable to start is frustrating and confusing. It’s also extremely common.
