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Exams - help
My son is 14 and dyspraxic. He has been using a laptop for school for most of his secondary school life. Although he has learnt some ga coping mechanisms for his dyspraxia he has never really been able to write. Now he is entering the exam period and all of sudden the school says he will need to write in exams but they will allow him more time! This feels highly unfair and smacks at him being disadvantaged. increased time allocation does not sole dyspraxia and the fact that his writing is practically unreadable. Just puts him under additional pressure. Has anyone got experience of exams and dyspraxia and what our rights are?
29/01/2012 15:45:16
DianaRad
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