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Recommendation Guide

Condition

Impacts

ADHD

Read

  • Attentional control

  • Concentration & focus

  • Prioritising & organisation

  • Procrastination & getting started on tasks

  • Ease of distractibility

  • Restlessness

  • Hyperactivity and impulsiveness

Autistic Spectrum  Condition (ASC)

Read

  • Overwhelm

  • Managing heightened stress levels

  • Distributing time evenly between tasks

  • Getting started if subject is not of interest

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ ME

Read

  • Extreme tiredness

  • Sleep disruption

  • Brain fog/ cognition

  • Memory Muscle weakness

  • General malaise

  • Speed of working

  • Disruption due to the need for pacing/ rest breaks/ recovery time

Crohn’s Disease

Read

  • Tiredness

  • Frequency

  • Joint pain/ bodily pain

  • General malaise

  • Need for rest breaks

  • Speed of working

Dyslexia

Read

  • Speed of processing

  • Memory deficits

  • Reading efficiency

  • Overwhelmed by large volumes of text

  • Speed of working

Dyspraxia

Read

  • Handwriting

  • Organisation and planning

  • Coordinating tasks

  • Time management

  • Attention

  • Memory

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Read

  • Joint hypermobility

  • Joint pain

  • Extreme tiredness

  • Digestive problems

  • Secondary emotional impact to manage

Epilepsy

Read

  • Possible side effects from medication to manage

  • Seizures to manage

  • Cognition

  • Speed of working

  • Recovery time and disruption

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Read

  • Lack of energy

  • Frequency

  • Stomach pains

  • General malaise

  • Need for rest breaks

  • Speed of working

Mental Health (Anxiety and Depression)

Read

  • Focus and concentration

  • Motivation

  • Low mood

  • Distractibility

Mental Health (Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder)

Read

  • Emotional instability

  • Disturbed patterns of thought

  • Motivation to start tasks

  • Distractibility

  • Heightened distress to manage

Mental Health (Schizophrenia)

Read

  • Disruption to cognition with disturbed patterns of thinking

  • Motivation to start tasks

  • Distractibility/ loss of focus

  • Hallucinations (visual/ audio)

  • Withdrawal Distress to manage

Get in touch

Claire Hardy is our DSA expert with a wealth of experience working in the sector as a DSA needs assessor, AT trainer and specialist study skills tutor.

If you are a DSA professional and have any questions regarding Luna or Booost, please use the options below to get in touch.

Claire Hardy

Education Relationship Executive