Dispraxia and the junior cert

Trevor451

Hey I have Dispraxia and I am doing my junior cert this year. One of my teachers said that I am getting a scribe. what exactly will the scribe do

phasers

A scribe is a person that will write down your answers for you, you just have to say them out loud.

spurious

As phasers said, they will write your answers.

This isn't as easy as it sounds. I was a scribe for a candidate once and for some reason he started speaking a strange stilted form of English - quite unnatural. I actually stopped him and tried to get him to relax and speak like he normally does, but he still continued. He did OK in the results, but as I had to write exactly what he said, I can't help thinking he would have done better if he had spoken normally.

Have a couple of practice sessions with a teacher round about May or so, so that you will be comfortable with dictating.

RHRN

I had dyspraxia and just did the junior cert, and I'd much rather recommend that you get a computer (what I did) to type on than a scribe. Found scribes VERY hard - especially in something like english where I tend to go back on parts of answers a lot. All the options are on the form that has to be filled out and signed by you and your guidance counsellor.

Bears and Vodka

Damn lads, u made me wonder what dispraxia is. Is it when a lad cant write well i.e. his handwriting is horrible? One guy in my class has that. He uses a small laptop.. Dunno if you're allowed to use that in JC