I recently got my dyspraxia diagnosis from university. It was all a bit unceremonious and felt a lot like, 'here's your report, now tell us what you need'.
The thing is, I don't actually know what I need - hence going to see student support in the first place!
The report suggested longer time in exams, sitting exams alone, and using assistive software such as the read aloud function on PDFs. I do the last thing anyway, and the other two will be very welcome, but I feel like that in itself isn't going to assuage the constant feeling of 'drowning in words' that I have right now.
So... I have a meeting on the 4th March and I'm making a list of some things that I think might help me (not sure - haven't tried yet!) but wondered if:
a) these seem reasonable
b) anyone has any additional suggestions.
I'm planning on asking for:
- A map of streets around campus where I'm allowed to park my car (or a parking permit if they're feeling really generous) because the stress of parking/leaving in enough time to park is real.
- A dictaphone to record lectures. I know I could do it on a smartphone, but I don't use one because I find them waaaay too distracting.
- That I be allowed to use the referencing style I spent my previous degree learning, rather then the one this uni favours (both accepted styles) and if not, that I have someone sit down and explain this new one to me because it's where I'm dropping most marks.
- The icing on the cake would be all essay based assessments, but that's probably super unlikely
- Getting reading lists during the holidays would also be magic, but I know that's difficult when courses are constantly changing around covid restrictions.