I have exactly the same situation here - a member of staff has failed a
professional certificate and claims dyslexia, and wants to be tested.
I'd love to know how to proceed
John.
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Subject: provision of EP reports for staff
Dear all
a member of our academic staff wants to have an Educational
Psychologist's
report to look into her suspected dyslexia and expects the
institution to
fund this. This is a new situation for us, and I have forwarded
her
request to our Equality and Diversity Officer as I have assumed
this is a
Personnel matter. ( My own provision is for funding student
support, as is
that of my colleague in Student Services). We have offered her
back up
through screening and staff development however. She believes
it is
practice in other universities to fund EP reports for staff and
I haven't
a clue whether this is so, although can believe that larger
institutions
are probably better placed to offer these kinds of services.
Can anyone advise on practice? We are a small specialist arts
institution
and one university she mentioned was UEL, which is of a very
different
size to us. (Anyone from UEL out there??!)
thank you very much
Alison
Alison James
Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
Falkner Road
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7DS
Tel: 01252 892762
