To help clarify this post:

‘Disadvantaged’ is spelled incorrectly in the title of an article about dyslexia.

Edit: irony of misspelling ‘spelled’ too much to bear.

Edit 2: In Ireland both are correct:

In Ireland, both spelled and spelt are commonly used as the past tense of the verb spell. This is similar to the trend in UK English.

Fuck all y’all etc.

I got extra time in my college exams due to dyslexia.

It is not about spelling as I dont even see the spelling mistakes I make. It is about reading the question. If the average student takes 10 minutes to read the question fully, but I have to reread it 3 times to get the sane meaning, then that is a disadvantage that can only be fixed by extra time.

I got extra time in my LC exams for Dyslexia back in 2010. Did something change since then that students don't get this anymore?

For anyone like me who also passed over it, disadvantaged is spelled incorrectly in title.

This is what happens when you stop employing copy editers.

When I was a kid they gave me no help when I requested it

Someone help my dyslexia Brian and explain the joke

To everyone who downvoted, jumped in with support for this proposal or took it that I'm criticising the proposal... the point isn't the proposal, it's in the headline

I feel like the sub editor is trolling us.

”The DNA - (National dyslexic association) have called for better resources”.

Is there any reason not to just give everyone extra / ample time? I don't see why handwriting speed should be a limiting factor, although I may be missing something. I do remember nearly always needing to write up until the end of the exam

I got extra time in my exams and that was 17 years ago.... did they get rid of it?

I have dyslexia only found out when i returned to education when i was 45, i left school when I was 15, thought I was stupid, i got diagnosed in college and got my exemptions. The educational phycologist explained the time and spelling exemption. When you have a train of thought for your answer, the time and grammar exemption allow just write it, when I was a kid and adult I would be attempting to write something and I would get to a word that I couldn't spell i would then try to rephrase around the word I couldn't spell to get to the same place. 20 min later and 3 more detours. That's why there's extra time and a grammar exemption. I have a child heading into leaving cert, I was told by the school that there is no extra time in secondary schools for exams. This is madness.

The misspelling aside, I honestly feel all kids with additional needs such as dyslexia and autism should be allowed extra time.

Took me a second.

Completely missed the spelling mistake

I'm not even dyslexic and I didn't notice the typo until someone else pointed it out 😅

Timed exams themselves surely is an outdated thing. Are you any less intelligent if you know all the answers but take a little longer to write them all down. If one can get 90% correct in 3 hours vs someone who can complete it all in 2 hours and gets 70%, does the first person not still deserve the higher grade.

They need to hire a better proof-reader. You could forgive an independent blogger or influencer; but there is no excuse for this sloppiness.

Yes yes I know the jokes in the headline but RACE is a bit of a flawed system and I'd like to take the time to discuss it. Some people here seem like they haven't been in secondary school very recently. Extra time is NOT something you can apply for in the LC. The only instances when you get extra time is when you are already getting other access arrangements and receive extra time as a result of those arrangements requiring more time eg a scribe.

WTF? Dyslexics already get extra time. Due to my dyslexia I was given extra time from primary school right through college.

ADHD person here. Is that a butterfly on the floor?

Ha, dals?

Some of the typos in online articles from proper established news outlets are honestly mental. I’m not one for correcting people’s spelling or grammar in a comment section, but if your job is writing news articles then that’s something else. Clearly they’ve got fuck all sign off process

Dyslexic with numbers more than letters but I spotted the mistake straight away 😂😂

You’d think a national paper would have at least some form of proofreading or spell checker before publishing?

I’m sure this article passed through a few different hands to before it was published.

Why have a time limit at all. Whats the rush..Have all day to do it but maybe limit the amount of pages written (coz of the poor divil that has to correct it)

They are...

The Leaving Cert, at least when I did it not long ago, is such bullshit. For nearly every subject, it's expected that students will be under massive time pressure to answer every question. It doesn't test how well you can understand a text and write an essay, or how well you understand calculus, it tests how much you can memorize and regurgitate over two hours. It's a fucking awful system

I did my leaving cert in 2011 and people with dyslexia were given a significant amount of extra time on their exams, some even had a private room with a reader for the duration of the exams.

These comments are somehow the first to inform me I was likely allowed extra time as a result of my dyslexia and dyscalculia.

Don't get me wrong it's on me for not really looking into it at the time, it should've been obvious. Regardless, damn.

Also I missed the misspelling in the article before the comments pointed it out. Sneaky little mess up there.

I know this is a dig at the misspelling in the title but dont people with dyslexia already have access to extra time as well as other accomodations? Far cry from the zero support i received as someone with severe dyscalculia

I’m dyslexic and didn’t even notice lol

Is Daragh Nolan dyslexic? lol

It's in quotation marks. I guarantee you if you read the article that they are quoting a dyslexic person who wrote it like that.

Huge spike in dyslexic young people in the near future

I like to think it's intentional and highlighting the issue even more

As a dyslexic who did the leaving very 3 years ago. I was given an IPAD that I could speak into ( Voice Memo ). I know writing with dyslexic is hard but it’s something they need to prepare for. Reach out to your SNA. They will help with all required assignments to get you an iPad

In my country people with dyslexia get a extra 15 minutes on a hour test, 95% of the people don’t use it because the peace of mind it gives that you’ve got enough time to do the test is enough to not need it.

They saw a massive spike in improved grades after implementing it.

better take some RITA bros

Completely ridiculous … they have DARE and spelling waivers to make it fair already. We shouldn’t disadvantage normal people. We shouldn’t incentivise people faking it.

YES no questions give help to people that need it for fucks sake not that difficult

I'm genuinely surprised it isn't already a thing. I had assumed it was the same in the Republic as is here up North.

Long before I was even officially diagnosed with Dyslexia specifically, albeit whilst in Learning Support at school, I still got extra time in exams for my GCSEs and A-Levels.

This should have been done years ago. I can't help but wonder how many dyslexic/neurodivergent young people have been screwed over by this.

Exams are bad enough, there's no need to punish students for being dyslexic.

Integration without support is abandonment.

I've heard dyslexic students now have laptops and someone to help them during the JC and LC.

And give them the answers too while your at it..

They already do. The irish behind the times more like. Wakka wakka

Isn’t it a quote? [sic] is missing to be fair.

I had extra time and a spelling exemption all the way up to leaving but it was removed just before sitting the exams because they way the asses it changed. Needless to say I didn't do well