Sorry, tutor to dyslexic students, Dyslexia Unit, Bangor Univ.
Dorothy
At 13:19 10/07/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:15:32 +0100
>> Subject: Re: Learning Contracts - Anew
>> From: Dorothy Gilroy <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Reply-to: [log in to unmask]
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>Yes, Val, and a very clear and poised account. Who is Dorothy?
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>Rod
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>> This a very interesting dialogue.
>>
>> On assessment, as various people have said, the skills needed to cope with
>> an academic degree should speak for themselves, but it could be likely that
>> an assessment AFTER a degree might easily show better literacy skills, and
>> maybe better scores on the verbal side of the "IQ" testing, (scores which
>> employers like!!)
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>> As far as this type of post-grad course is concerned, surely one is looking
>> at professional as well as academic skills, ability to cope on the job in
>> various ways, and the professional body might have certain criteria which
>> could go beyond any contract drawn up by an academic institution. I have
>> come across two cases where brilliant dyslexic post-grads could not handle
>> certain work-related
>> assessment criteria of the professional qualification; one was advised to
>> take another course and is now in research, the other could not work under
>> the intense pressure she found herself in on placement; she got the
>> qualification after a battle, but is not working in the mainstream of this
>> career and has eventually agreed that she is more suited to what she is
>> doing now than what she had intended to do.
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>> I think every dyslexic person should be given every chance to prove their
>> coping strategies with the full adavntage of a good assessment and all the
>> IT they can possibly lay their hands on. But they may come to a point where
>> they cannot
>> fulfil the professional requirements of the JOB and may have to adapt or
>> re-think. This could happen to non-dyslexic people as well.It could be
>> dangerous to have a contract written in tablets of stone at this level.
>>
>> Hope this makes sense!
>>
>> Dorothy
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>> t 18:25 09/07/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> >> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:19:40 +0100
>> >> Priority: normal
>> >> Subject: Learning Contracts - Anew
>> >> From: "Debbie Gibberd" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> To: [log in to unmask]
>> >> Reply-to: [log in to unmask]
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>> >Dear Val
>> >
>> >This seems a very civilised sort of approach? Do you know her?
>> >
>> >Yours sincerely
>> >
>> >Rod
>> >> While that I agree with Bryan that the principle spur to the move
towards
>> >> learning contracts comes from the Law Society, and the case with
>> >> the dyslexic student, I think that the discussion could boaden
>> >> out a little again on this topic.
>> >>
>> >> The move towards adoption of learning contracts in this
>> >> university came quite independently of that case, in relation to
>> >> a serious complaints made by a student with a sensory inpairment
>> >> on a post grad course.
>> >>
>> >> I am interested in how we build a framework for a contract
>> >> which in essence makes sure that :-
>> >> the department is tied in to providing certain support.
>> >> the student doesnt come up with unanticipated resource-hungry
>> >> needs at the last minute.
>> >> the university doesnt have a blanket get-out for its
>> >> responsibilities to provide core facilities.
>> >>
>> >> My dilemma is creating a framework which has hard edges in some
>> >> requirements and obligations, but soft walls which can adapt and change
>> >> according to the direcltly experienced needs.
>> >>
>> >> I have had useful contact with Nottingham Trent, and will follow
>> >> up the contact at Sheffield Hallem, but welcome further
>> >> comments from others who are evolving similar procedures and
>> >> documents.
>> >> Debbie Gibberd
>> >> City University Disability Officer
>> >> Northampton Square, London EC1V0HB
>> >>
>> >> 0171 477 8806 voice and minicom
>> >> 0171 477 8561 fax
>> >>
>> >Rod Coveney
>> >Registrar and Clerk to the Board of Governors
>> >University College Worcester
>> >Email: [log in to unmask]
>> >Fax: 01905 855132
>> >
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>Rod Coveney
>Registrar and Clerk to the Board of Governors
>University College Worcester
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Fax: 01905 855132
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