About BRAIN.HE
BRAIN.HE was created to provide all higher education students and their tutors with a support network and information covering all forms of neurodiversity. The project aims to improve the Higher Education sector's response to neurodiversity, including dyspraxia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, Autism Spectrum (A.S.), Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder, Tourette's and dyscalculia.
The project work is funded by the HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England). It is directed by Dr David Pollak, Principal Lecturer in Learning Support and National Teaching Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester. This site holds information which was previously scattered, as well as new materials applicable to higher education where none existed previously.
The student voice is an important part of the project. BRAIN.HE staff and the advisory group - all specialists in education, psychology, and members of national/ international support organisations - have interviewed a number of students from universities across the country. These interviews serve to inform other students and to represent the experiences, both positive and negative, encountered by those with learning differences whilst in the higher education system. It also facilitates research on how higher education responds to neurodiverse students.
BRAIN.HE web-pages aim to model good practice for accessibility and it is acknowledged that SpLD-wise practice is fundamentally good practice in teaching and learning. They will also display an expanding timetable of public lectures and conferences to cover a wide range of specific learning differences, as these become available.
