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From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Ian Webb

To: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]

Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:20 AM

Subject: Re: Note-taking support costs

Or you could use an electronic device such as the Digiscribble. Handwritten notes,
maps, sketches and signatures can all be captured remotely using a normal ink
filled pen! Save them to the PC and then convert them to typed text and copy or
import into Office applications like Word and Outlook. At £51 a cheap alternative
to all that extra time and the problems of finding a typist.

Ian

Quoting Sally Brindley <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hello Peter
>
> I agree  - I think one extra hour per hour of notetaking is too much. Surely
> the Institute should be using people who can type notes during lectures, but
> I do think they need a little bit more time to check for clarity and
> reorganise the notes on screen to ensure that they make sense, before
> emailing them to the student. I have a friend who does this job, and who
> often works in her own time to ensure that the notes are presented in a way
> that the student will find clear.
> The student who needs the notes might have such a severe difficulty with
> reading (for whatever reason) that they need the notes read electronically
> anyway, so should not have to use handwritten notes.
> If a student had 15 hrs per week ( seems a lot!) in lectures I would probably
> add about 25% time for the above.
> I do not think that handwritten notes are acceptable - if a student finds
> reading difficult per se how much harder to have to cope with handwriting
> idiosyncrasies?
> Sometimes if the student has a diagnosis of AS I might recommend additional
> time after lectures for discussion of the content, and in this case it can be
> more useful to have a postgrad student taking notes rather than a qualified
> notetaker.
> If the notetaker is qualified surely he/she should be a touch-typist. Local
> rates where I work (SE Eng) are between £18.50 - £21 per hour to the
> Institute  - surely enough to expect a professional service?
>
> Sally Brindey
> Needs Assessor
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Peter Hill
>   To: [log in to unmask]
>   Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:45 PM
>   Subject: Note-taking support costs
>
>
>   Hi
>
>   (apologies for cross posting)
>
>   As a Needs Assessor, I sometimes recommend provision of a note-taker for
>   students with dyslexia.  Institutional charges vary but, for the most
>   part, they are about £16 per hour.  I've recently been asked on a couple
>   of occasions to increase the recommendation to allow extra time for
>   word-processing the notes.  I've been informed, too, that some
>   organisations recommend an hour for typing up for every hour of
> note-taking.
>
>   In the case of a student attending 15 hours of lectures per week, this
>   could cost £480.00 per week (£16 x 30) or £14,400 per year (for a 30
>   week course).  I've always operated on the assumption that the hourly
>   rate includes typing up and I'm uneasy about this development - not
>   least because the potential costs are well in excess of the normal
>   maximum for Non Medical Helpers Allowance.
>
>   Has anyone else encountered this.
>
>   Regards
>
>   Peter
>
>   --
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>   Peter J Hill
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>   Tel: 01905 391 547
>   Mobile: 07751 792711
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>   Email: [log in to unmask]
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Ian Webb
Disability Adviser/Assessor
MNADP



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