Almost 25,000 students with additional needs granted access to spelling waivers, reading assistance or smaller classrooms
This year’s State exams are due to get under way on Wednesday, with more than 130,000 candidates due to sit Junior Cycle and Leaving Cert exams.
Thousands have also been approved to sit exams in “special centres”, typically small classrooms rather than large exam halls. Dyslexia, which affects approximately one in 10 people, is estimated to affect thousands of students due to sit the State exams.whose petition seeking extra time has attracted almost 20,000 signaturesIt maintains that Ireland is an “outlier” in not providing extra time for students at second level, given that it is an established option for dyslexic students in countries such as France, Italy and the UK.
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