[senco-forum] [SENco-forum] FW: exam scribes

I know of 3 students with dyslexia/processing issues that put them firmly in
the bottom 2 - 12 % according to EP reports.

One uses TextHELP but still works best with a scribe in some subjects, one
cannot abide having a scribe and the school never got to grips with them
using a word processor and did not apply for its use in exams, the third is
independent when using TextHELP as a reader/scribe.

A transcription is not possible for the last student where occasional words
are indecipherable and when not using ICT loses all sense in
sentences/paragraphs. It was not available for the other student as it was
not their normal way of working.

Each student has very individual needs to bring them up to around the level
of a low average student and it is a shame that the exam access arrangements
are only aimed at support for those under the 85 cut-off.

In these three students case their IQ is between 120 & 140, but this is not
factored in at all. Lack of suitable support in exams will mean their
results will be /were around 'D F' and not what they deserved.

Does the fault lie in parents having too high an expectation that their
children get 'C' grades, that mainstream schools are failing to support them
to their ability level, or a failure of exam boards to take into account a
change in the normal way of working for many students, including those with
dual exceptionalities?

Sharon

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