The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) offers or provides a number of facilities for people with special needs, which includes foreign language voiceovers, extra time, interpretation of British Sign Language, reading difficulties and translator assisted tests.
How does the theoretical examination candidates with special requirements?
The following services are available for candidates with special requirements. At the time of booking needs requires all listed facilities or special demand.
Facilities for those whose native language is not English:
If a person has difficulty reading or understanding English well,
he or she can demand a voice in one of 21 languages. With the help of headphones a person can hear instructions and theory test questions. Automatically read the question to you and to touch the text on the screen can also listen to the answer choices. Simply touching the question text on the screen again, you can hear the questions as many times as you want.
Language voiceover is available in the following languages:
Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Dari, Spanish, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Mirpuri, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushto, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu, Welsh
Translator assisted tests:
You can also request a translator assistant for theory test if needed voice is not provided in the language you need. You can get the details of the DSA approved translators include names and relevant details call contact center agent. To arrange a test date with the translator and driving test fees, you must coordinate with him.
Facilities for people with reading difficulties:
You may request an English or Welsh voice, if you have dyslexia or other reading difficulties. The standard time for multiple items from the choice of the driving test is 57 minutes upon request, you can exceed twice, but for this you will need to submit proof of your reading difficulty to the theory test booking customer services.
Facilities for people with hearing difficulties:
You can ask to test the theory in British Sign Language (BSL), if you are hearing impaired or deaf. The standard test questions and answers of BSL interpretation will run alongside. An interpreter can be taken into the test center, you do not want to use BSL interpreter. This service must be arranged by the customer service section of the theory test is available at free of cost.
Other special requirements:
You can contact the customer services section theory test unless they satisfy the facilities listed above your requirement or if you have a special requirement. They talk about their needs and match or compare the facilities available to them to be necessary.
If you are appearing for driving test must hold a valid provisional driving license and can only appear for theory examination and after passing the driving theory test may appear or apply for the practical driving test.
