I agree with Mark Boyce's response.
In my experience, periods of transition to new ways of learning or new levels of demand on intellectual work can be difficult for dyslexia students, even if they were coping very well prior to this transition. It often make them feel that they're "getting worse".
Regular sessions with a dyslexia support tutor to help them develop new coping strategies and organise their time and work sounds like a good idea in this case.
Sheila
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Hello,
Any advice or sharing of a similar experience would be greatly
appreciated. A student with dyslexia completed her first degree very
sucessfully with little by way of special arrangements other than extra
time in exams. But after one term of postgraduate work she is having
major problems because of the inevitably rather open-ended and
unstructured nature of the work. I realise that there is no such thing
as a typical person with dyslexia, but, having said that, we would be
grateful for any answers or suggestions for the following questions.
Would one expect a dyslexic student to have this sort of problem?
Could it be a sign of some other underlying problem, and if so how could
ths be assessed?
Can anyone suggest sources of help, coping strategies, or share their
experience with particular relevance to a dyslexic student doing
postgraduate work in a mathematical subject?
With best wishes,
Arthur Chatters
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