On 01/12/05, Liz Thompson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

We've recently looked at this issue in order to give guidance to our
learning support tutors. Surely the distinction is between doing something
for the student (not allowed ) and helping them to do it for themselves (the
basis of giving support) ?

Regards

Liz

Liz Thompson
Learning Support Officer

Student Services
University of Brighton
Room 2, Manor House
Moulsecoomb Place
Brighton BN2 4GA

-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lloyd G. Richardson
Sent: 01 December 2005 12:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Dyslexia support and proof-reading

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

-----Original Message-----
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
To: [log in to unmask]
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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