Mick
To answer your comments on both forums ...
The issue with the LEA that is refusing is that THEY do not understand the
needs of students AND seem not to have read the guidance available to them.
It is clearly nonsense to presume that dyslexia is the only diagnosable
condition of any relevance.
Also, I would suggest that the misuse of EP reports is as likely to be
because of a lack of understanding about current diagnostic thinking in the
administrators as because the EPs are misinformed about HE provision.
We already have almost clear guidance in the form of the working party
report and the SKILL Handbook. (Neither of which is entirely consistent
with itself but both of which point to a widening of thinking about the
Specific Difficulties that so frequently are assumed to equate directly to
dyslexia and are not always described with sufficient specificity.
jeff
In your message regarding Re: Sat nav through DSA dated Fri, 11 Nov 2005
15:25:49 EST, Michael Trott said that ...
> Often the EP report lacks the supporting information one requires for
> anything 'outside the normal provision'.
> I had a similar request for Sat Nav from a social work student but could find
> no reference to any sort of spacial problem in the EP report.
> I had a chat with an Ed Psych today who does lots of reports for students and
> he was completely unaware of how his reports were used. Like many other Ed
> Psychs he was writing his reports as if they were for school aged students.
> Recommending laptops and teaching strategies that just are not going to be
> provided in HE.
> There is a discussion going on on the NADO list of which some of us may be
> aware abiout an LEA who will not agree to a DSA award because the report does
> not say say the student has dyslexia but describes other difficulties.
> It would be really useful if a guide could be prepared for Ed Pyschs
> conducting reports for DSA applicants. I am sure that most EPs would be only
> too happy
> to revise their presentation.
> Mick Trott
> In a message dated 11/11/05 12:25:30 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
> writes:
> << After careful consideration of all the evidence, in particular the scores
> for perceptual organisation (which was very low) and working memory( which
> was in line with her verbal comprehension index score, not atypical of
> people with dyslexia) ,it was thought that she could cope with the task of
> driving a car whilst using a Sat nav and it would not overload her. Apart
> from the test results both the Ed Psy and the student specifically stated
> that map reading was an area of notable difficulty.
> Considering the extensive hours she was required to complete visiting
> clients as part of her course the recommendation was made to the LEA and
> they approved it.
> >>
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