Supporting Documentation

We want to provide you with the support that you require. To do this, we need you to provide suitable supporting documentation of your disability, neurodiverse or health condition or specific learning difference.

If you are unsure about whether your supporting documentation is suitable, or have other questions relating to your documentation you can drop into the Health and Wellbeing Centre to discuss this with one of our Disability and Inclusion Officers.  They can also meet with you via Teams, if that is more convenient.

All documentation must be presented in English.  

If your documentation is not in English you have two options:

Obtain a certified translation of your original documentation.  A certified translation is one which has been certified to be a true and accurate translation by the person who completed the translation. It should include the contact details of the person or company who prepared the translation and be added to the document in such a way so as to prevent the translation being tampered with, namely a legal fastening and/or embossed seal. This adds credibility to the translation and the authority this is presented to can verify the document with the translator if required.

Allow us to run your documentation through the University's AI platform, ELM, to obtain a translation. If you wish to use this method you need to:

  1. Email your original documentation to disability.service@ed.ac.uk 
  2. State in the email that you give the Disability and Learning Support Service permission to run the documentation through the University's AI platform to obtain a translation.
  3. The documentation MUST be in Word or PDF format, we cannot create a translation from photographs.
  4. We will email you a copy of the translated document once done for their records.