According to Professor Elliott, dyslexic university students are gaining an unfair advantage by getting extra time for their studies and many are getting diagnosed simply to get up to £10,000 worth of equipment including laptops and extra books.
University lecturers have complained about students “milking the system” by pretending they have the condition.
One lecturer who teaches in the South-East said:
“On one degree course I teach, about one quarter of the students get help with their coursework and other assistance because they have this label. You become quite cynical.”
The number of students who receive disability allowances at university has risen to a record 35,500 at a cost of £78.4million a year.
In this country, college kids will often seek a ADD or ADHD diagnosis so they can be prescribed Ritalin...which they then sell to the other college students. It’s evidently a great for “cramming” for exams, etc.
>>According to Professor Elliott, dyslexic university students are gaining an unfair advantage by getting extra time for their studies and many are getting diagnosed simply to get up to £10,000 worth of equipment including laptops and extra books.
University lecturers have complained about students “milking the system” by pretending they have the condition.<<
It is possible that the diagnosis is sometimes misused but that does not, by itself, mean that it is always misused.
public schools in the states do this with ADHD and ADD and Dyslexia.
The parents get freebees, the school get money. The child grows into an adult who had a permanent excuse for failures.