New additional support-needs legislation in Scotland sought to recognise the way in which poverty, as well as individual impairment, contribute to the creation of children's difficulties in learning. As well as identifying a wider range of needs, the legislation sought to provide parents, irrespective of social background, with more powerful means…

This article focuses on the construction of dyslexia in higher education and explores the nature of negotiations between students, lecturers and academic institutions over diagnosis, support and assessment. Disabled students are now entitled, under the terms of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), to reasonable adjustments in assessment.…

Summarizes the pressures for including disabled students in Scottish high education and assesses the extent to which the expansion of higher education has included disabled students. Highlights the experiences of disabled students and the attempts of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council in managing the higher education market. (CMK)