**8. Student wellbeing and counselling services**

Student wellbeing and counselling support services are generally well-established in both physical on-campus and virtual form offering support services to help students address personal and emotional challenges. These services create a supportive

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environment where students from diverse backgrounds can access professional help and support their well-being.

Disability support within Higher Education is now well established, with the typical offering including assistance with applying for the Disabled Students' Allowances funding, referral for an assessment with an Educational Psychologist, referral for Autistic Spectrum Disorder assessment, dentification of individual reasonable adjustments, arrangements for study needs assessments, liaison with academic and other university departments and Exam support. Emerging technology now share a space for supporting students, for example Brain in Hand [33] is a digital self-management support system for people who need support in a variety of ways including help in remembering things, managing anxiety as well as planning and making decisions. The technology is not condition-specific, but is often used by people who are autistic or managing anxiety-related mental health challenges. Combining practical human support and digital self-management technology, Brain in Hand helps people live more independently. Many Higher Education students are funded by the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA), a government grant which helps disabled students overcome barriers to learning.
