Ros,
You are exactly right when you say that most of us ask others to check
over stuff we have written from time to time.
I have never regarded this as wrong. (I got my wife to proof correct
parts of my MA thesis, and I have done similar for colleagues.) But for
some HE lecturers this is a real hot potato.
You are also right (and brave) to raise the issue of what a support
tutor should do in extremis. Last summer a dyslexic student asked me
for some 'help' with her dissertation. It was the only piece of work
she had failed and she had to re-submit it within three weeks (she was
leaving the country at the end of the month).
There was no time for a skills development approach and I was very open
with the course tutor and the student in terms of the sort of 'help' I
intended to provide. In this instance common sense prevailed.
Regards, Lloyd Richardson
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ros Stevenson
Sent: 01 December 2005 12:01
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Subject: Dyslexia support and proof-reading
Hello
Thank you to everyone who responded to my request for a support tutor in
Sheffield.
All the comments regarding proof-reading have been very interesting to
read. I completely agree that in an ideal world proof-reading should
not form a regular part of study skills support - unless it is done with
the student's involvement - and I think it's important that students
realise this. However, if life gets in the way and a study skills
session cannot be arranged to fit in with deadlines, it seems to me not
unreasonable for a tutor to agree to check over the work in this way on
occasion - and presumably to use the experience constructively in
further one-to-one sessions.
Whether proof-reading is done by a person or a computer - or both - is I
think a separate issue. Don't most of us, dyslexic or not, from time
to time ask someone else to check over what we have written - even if we
have already run it through spell and grammar checks?
(I have just asked one of my colleagues to have a look at this before
sending!)
Ros
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Ros Stevenson (Mrs)
Adviser for Dyslexic/SpLD Students
Oxford Brookes University
Student Services
Helena Kennedy Student Centre
Headington Hill Campus
Oxford OX3 0BP
Tel: 01865 484693
Fax: 01865 484656
www.brookes.ac.uk/student/services/dyslexia/
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