I'm hoping that someone out there can give some pointers on this.
At Westminster, in exams, students with Dyslexia can claim extra
time and the use of a computer with spellcheckers.
This has raised issues for students on Integrated Health courses
who do Science and botany based subjects. Does anyone have any
experience ( perhaps with medical students?) about the
appropriateness of the provision of specialist spellcheckers given the
subject matter.
Lecturers are looking into the issue, but at the moment the general
feeling it a lot of the terminology in things like botany can be very
similar as it has the same latin root and the provision of a
spellchecker is not appropriate as students have to know the correct
terms.
Hope this makes sense. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Katy
Katy Mann
Disability Adviser, West End
University of Westminster
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