Support from tutors

Alex: The last tutor I had hadn't dealt with a dyslexic before. They were a relatively new tutor, and she was open and frank with me and said, Look, I haven't had a dyslexic in my groups before, how do you want help? And for me that was the greatest question to be asked as a dyslexic because I can turn round and say, Thank you very much for asking me that, this is how I want support. Can I have a little bit of one-to-one time after the lecture? Can I have some of your notes? If you're obviously going to be planning your tutorial would I be able to have a copy of that?

And I was able to go through with her the way my dyslexia affects me, and that was really, really good that they were able to say that and be frank with me that they hadn't dealt with me, as opposed to trying to be confident and say, Oh well, I know how to deal with dyslexics, and getting it all wrong because they weren't confident enough to be able to ask me the question.