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Tina
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Date Posted: 13:10:57 06/08/06 Thu
Hi. I have been battling for my son to get help with his dyslexia from a very early age, but it wasnt until his final year at high school that he eventually got the help he needed. He eventually ended up with a reader, a sciber, and extra help with his GCSE exams and to everones surprise left school with 9 GCSEs under his belt. His teachers were absolutely amazed. After much persuasion my son agreed to go on to further education at Technical College. He received all the help he required up to his exams, including an hour lesson once a week with a special needs teacher, and was awarded the same help with his exams that he had been awarded at high school. The first exam went OK, and the reader and writer was a part time college lecturer, but the next days exam was a total cock up!! The invigilator was not told previous to the exam that he would also be required to act as a reader and writer, and had to leave the room, and check up at the start of ther exam and make enquiries. He eventually returned and said that he had been asked if he would read and write the questions for him, but he had never done it before. The exam did not go well, and my son ended up reading and writing the questions himself, because he claimed that the invigilastor could not fluently read the questions. I need to knopw if this is correct procedure. I have complained to the exam office and they have replied that the invigilator was well educated and had a degree in business studies, although no one had ever tested his ability to read out loud, and he had no teaching experience whatsoever, and no experience with special needs pupils. I feel as though i am being fobbed off, but am having great difficulty in finding out whether this is actual acceptable procedure or not. the only thing that they can offer me is that his paper is marked as it is, and he can resit his exams in January free of charge if he so wishes. I am absolutely outraged, but do not know where to go from here. Can any body help?
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