Support for students with literacy problems
If you are having problems reading and writing, you may be suffering from dyslexia. Dyslexia is a condition independent of intelligence or poor eyesight. Dyslexia is a permanent impairment which makes it difficult to handle written language, and which can therefore affect your studies.
If you have dyslexia, you might:
- read and spell in a slow, imprecise manner
- have problems learning and remembering new words and names, such as specialized terms from your courses
- have very different written and oral formulation skills
- have problems reading and writing a foreign language
- have problems remembering sentences while writing them down
- have problems formulating complicated contexts in writing
- have problems giving a summary of a text
- misunderstand information and text
- pay very little attention to detail or vice versa
- have problems planning time and tasks, and avoid or postpone tasks related to reading and writing.
As a dyslexic student, you may, for instance, be granted the following support:
- Dyslexic test, currently at Copenhagen's Adult Education Centre (KVUC).
- Diagnosis at a communication centre, currently at Copenhagen's Adult Education Centre (KVUC).
- IT starter package, consisting of a computer with an auto suggest program, speech synthesis, or other compensatory equipment, a scanner pen, a dictaphone, a scanner etc. Courses in using the starter package and the possibility of further diagnosis are also part of the starter package grant and must not be applied for separately.
- Program package if you want to use your own computer, for instance, if you have a Mac. Please note, however, that Mac users have to pay for a conversion program, and the program package does not include a scanner pen, dictaphone, scanner etc., which must therefore be applied for separately.
- Study support at a communication centre, e.g. help in connection with written assignments and improving your structuring and planning skills (currently at Copenhagen's Adult Education Centre (KVUC)).
- Teaching materials on digital media via https://nota.dk/.
NB! IT tools can be borrowed but must be returned if you leave or complete your study programme.