What is SKILL (National Bureau for Students with Disabilities)?Skill is the National Bureau for Students With Disabilities. It has lots of information for Deaf and disabled students and on the support offered by different universities and colleges. You can find out more information direct from their website. This will take you out of the artist's resource site and straight to the Skill site (www.skill.org.uk). If you want to talk to someone directly, they have a freephone helpline that is run twice a week:
Phone them on freephone 0800 328 5050, or on 020 7657 2337 (this is not a freephone number) or textphone 0800 068 2422. You can email advisers on info@skill.org.uk. They have a range of different information booklets that you can order. These are available in alternative formats, and you can also download them straight from the website. You can get to the information sheets by following this link. This will take you out of the artist's resource site and straight to the Skill site and a list of information sheets (www.skill.org.uk/info/infosheets.asp) Information sheets include the following:
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