[senco-forum] Do you use the gym for exams ?

If they need extra time they get it.
Stuart - fae Bonnie Scotland ... though it is damp and dreich at the mo!

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Sent: 11 May 2008 12:50
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Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Do you use the gym for exams ?

TES Scotland had a piece about more SEN pupils
being able to do exams on computers.

http://www.tes.co.uk/2616170

  >Exam papers go digital
Scotland is the first part of the UK to offer digital papers to exam
candidates, as an alternative to scribes and readers for pupils
requiring support.<

Further information
www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
Try One Out
http://www.callscotland.education.ed.ac.uk/Adapted_Digital_Exams/Try%20O
ne%20Out/index.php
or
http://tinyurl.com/4xaky5

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So presumably all these pupils could be in one room.

I wonder if they get extra time.
It takes longer to listen to text-reading software
than a normal silent reading pace.

I hope the exam setters listen to their papers.
I have only listened to a little bit of a sample,
but the heading had a Roman numeral I
which was read as the name of the capital, 'eye'.

How long will it be before this option is available
to all pupils in England who warrant a reader?

Jean
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Jean Hutchins, SE Surrey DA.
RSA Dip SpLD, AMBDA, retired.
E-mail: jeanhutchins1 at ntlworld.com
British Dyslexia Association Web: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
Also into spelling reform: www.simplifiedspelling.org
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