Jeff,
You are rare among EP's in being closely involved in the DSA from various
perspectives and in your engagement in this forum and NADO. I do not believe your
fellow EPs are as aware of the DSA as yourself. Neither do I believev that
they are aware of the way in which this relatively new audience for their
reports - LEA awards officers and assessors - would find it helpful to have
information presented. You say SKILL have covered this but how many EPs are aware of
SKILL itself.
If the SKILL Guidance covers the requirements then we need to get that in
front of your fellow EPs.
Mick Trott
In a message dated 11/11/05 22:00:25 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< 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 >>
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