We have a Navman and find it pretty good - you do have to remember to cancel
a journey when you return or it will constantly try to make you do U-turns
etc! Two humorous asides - when you are on a ferry it keeps telling you to
go to the nearest road and it gets a bit perplexed when there is a new
section of road - you appear to be running across fields!
We did think about getting one for our First Responders team, but it does
take a few minutes to key in the address or postcode so as we are looking
for houses in villages, we felt the time would be better spent just getting
there - ambulance crews have a much more advanced system and there are two
in the ambulance
Cheers
Judith
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Judith Stansfield
Chair North Richmondshire Community Partnership
www.eNRichPart.org
SEN ICT Consultant
NASEN ICT Group
Melsonby First Responders Team
http://stass.web.onyxnet.co.uk/
Farm Cottage, 24 East Road, Melsonby, Richmond DL10 5NF
01325 718139 mob 0799 0572 365
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Conway" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Sat nav through DSA
Just to lob in a bombshell..............
what about an EP who writes a "conversational letter" saying the student is
dyslexic having administered WAIS but quotes NO supporting data nor
evidence - and of course the student [two of them in fact] are refused for
"lack of evidence" [having spent £350 of course!]
And for my own benefit, can any of you needs assessors recommend a good
SatNav system as I'm thinking of buying one for myself [no known
disabilities - just fed up of reading maps]
John
Dr John S Conway
Principal Lecturer / Chair, Research Committee
Royal Agricultural college, Cirencester, Glos GL7 6JS
01285 652531 fax 01285 650219
http://www.royagcol.ac.uk/~john_conway
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. on
behalf of Michael Trott
Sent: Sat 12/11/2005 08:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sat nav through DSA
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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