# Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, Section 8: Support needs


(1) In this Act, a person has “support needs” if the person needs support for the purposes of overcoming a difficulty in learning, or a difficulty in participating in learning, which the person has.
(2) And—
(a) a person has a difficulty in learning if the person has significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of other persons within the same age group as the person; and
(b) a person has a difficulty in participating in learning if the person has greater difficulty in participating in learning than the majority of other persons within the same age group as the person.
(3) But a person is not be to be taken as having a difficulty in learning, or a difficulty in participating in learning, solely because the language (or form of the language) in which the person is, or will be, taught is different to a language (or form of a language) which has at any time been spoken in the person's home.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/6/section/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/further-and-higher-education-scotland-act-2005/section-8
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