On Wed 16 Oct, R.S.Thomas wrote:
> Patrick Mulcahy of UCL asked :
> <I would appreciate if anyone could provide advice on note-taking support for
> <a undergraduate student (year 3) currently studying Mathematics at
> <University College London. The student concerned has a physical disability
> <which prevents him from taking notes for any prolonged period of time.
> <City-Lit were unable to assist.>
>
> At Swansea we have a system ( which has worked well in the past)
> whereby students with a special need are provided with note-
> takers paid for from the Disabled Students Allowance
> They are paid at the postgraduate demonstrator rate which is
> currently L. 8.15 per hour. They attend the lecture and take the notes
> and are then engaged for a second hour to work these up into a
> word-processed text, with clear diagrams etc. For this they are
> paid a second L. 8.15 Each lecture attended therefore costs
> L. 16.30.
> This can be overcome
> if you dispense with the second hour of work for note-taking
> and rely on handwritten notes.
> Hope this is helpful
Hopefully some 'helpers' in the future will be sufficiently IT literate to
touch-type thenots and do it all in on go.
Perhaps a post-grad. dyslexic student who has typed all his lecture notes
first time round.
Regards
Ted
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Ted Pottage. Chairman, BDA (British Dyslexia Association) Computer Committee
See our *NEW* site -> http://www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk/
we're A1 at BETT'97 too.
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