Oxford Brookes UniversityLibrary services for students with dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties
Welcome to Oxford Brookes University Library
Please ask staff at the Enquiry Desks or Counters for help at any time.
More information is also available on our wiki Library Services for Disabled Students
Extra services are available to dyslexic students who have registered with the Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties Service. Contact them if you think you may have dyslexia, email dyslex.sup@brookes.ac.uk
Who can help you?
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Subject help, information skills, database searching, referencing - ask your Subject Librarian
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Lending services - Telephone 01865 483120 or email lendingservices@brookes.ac.uk
Borrow up to 15 books at a time instead of 12
Free photocopying card
- Collect one free copy card each year from
- Headington Library Audio Visual Unit
- Wheatley Library counter
- Harcourt Hill Library counter
- If you're based at Marston Road or Swindon, we can post the card to you if you phone Katie Hambrook on 01865 483146
- Use it
- One black and white A4 copy takes 1 credit and an A3 copy takes 2 credits.
- Recharge it
- Rechargers are by the photocopiers.
- £1 gives 19 credits when you recharge your card.
- If you need a receipt to claim against your DSA (Disabled
Students Allowance), we'll have to watch you recharge the
card.
Please contact:
Headington - Katie Hambrook 01865 483146
Wheatley - Jane Mitchell 01865 485870Harcourt Hill - Catherine Lauriol 01865 488221
Borrow reference material
- When all lending copies of a book are on loan, you may borrow a reference copy overnight, or for the weekend, with the approval of your Subject Librarian.
- This will not apply from week 7 to the end of the exam period.
Interlibrary Loans
- We can supply photocopied articles on blue paper.
Study support software
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Go to Start, All Programs, Study Tools
| TextHelp - supports people with dyslexia | Inspiration - for visual thinkers | Dragon Naturally Speaking - for people who find typing difficult This software is available only on PCs in the Assistive Technology Suite |
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| Dyslexia-friendly software | Mind mapping software | Voice-recognition software |
| Reads text aloud Scans printed text Creates audio files from text Spelling support |
Represents projects and research visually Jumpstarts new projects Diagrams, outlines and mind maps Converts a mind map to a linear essay plan |
Converts your speech to text NB Please note that you need to train Dragon to recognise your voice |
Colour video magnifier (CCTV)
Headington Library has a colour video magnifier (CCTV), which is
like a powerful magnifying glass that will magnify an image between
4x and 50x. You can display it in true colour, or change it to yellow,
green, amber or white on a black background, or black on a white
background.
Wheatley Library has a colour video magnifier.
Larger print handouts
If you would like a library guide printed in a larger font please ask a member of staff who will arrange to enlarge one for you. We could photocopy a guide onto coloured paper if this would help you read it. Most guides are on this Web site in Library guides online.
Upgrade
Contact the Upgrade Study Advice Service for advice on study skills and maths skills or use their drop in service. They can also help you use TextHelp software.
Blue dyslexia marking cards to attach to your work
Collect blue dyslexia marking cards from the Headington Library Enquiry Desk, Wheatley or Harcourt Hill Library Counters or the Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties Service in the Helena Kennedy Student Centre.
Assistive Technology Suite
Your Dyslexia Tutor may arrange to meet you in the Assistive Technology Suite, L311, off the Newspaper Area in Headington Library, for your one to one session.