DD has just finished AS levels and is hoping to study Graphic Design at uni. The application process usually involves an interview and discussion of her portfolio.
She's OK with people her own age - shy, but has close friends and a busy social life. No special needs that we're aware of, and she's fairly average academically. However, at the moment she CANNOT speak to adults. If one of my friends, or even her grandparents, asks her what A levels she's doing, she'll laugh nervously and look at me to answer. When I refuse, she'll say 'I don't know ...' and then there'll be a long pause before she replies. That's for easy questions when she knows the answer perfectly well. In parent/teacher meetings, she's painfully tongue-tied. I dread to think how she'll cope in an interview, discussing her artistic influences, why she's interested in that uni, etc.
We have a few months to get her ready for chatting with admissions tutors. I think the school offers a mock interview or two, but my feeling is that we need more drastic action than that. Anyone got any ideas? Can you get private tutors to help with that sort of thing? Any extra curricular activities I could suggest to her that would help with verbal confidence (and that there's a remote possibility she'd agree to do)?
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Uni interview preparation (graphic design) for shy, inarticulate DD
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hoodiemum · 07/06/2016 15:56
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