On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Anne-Denise Worsnop wrote:
> My job is to attend lectures for disabled students. I did ask our
> consultant on dyslexia whether it would be of help to dyslexic
> students if I were to attend lectures and give them the usual print
> out of the lecture at the end. (I use a laptop to take notes.) Our
> consultant told me that the last thing a dyslexic students needs is a
> lot of typewritten information. Tape recordings are the things,
> apparently. I pass on this information for what it is worth.
>
It seems to me that your consultant on dyslexia is over generalising.
Most of the dyslexic students I know and worked with (including myself)
would not benefit from recorded lectures, but rather would benefit from
typewritten notes with clearly marked headings and main ideas.
Tape-recording has many disadvantages. First of all- the amount of non
filtered information is enormous. Secondly, the tape would not provide
visual cues which are very helpful to many (multi sensory approach), this
could be solved of course by combining tapes with typewritten notes or
better, video tapes with typewritten notes.
Yishay >
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