Revision help for dyspraxic DD

[Fr0styfeet]

I’m looking for some advice please. My dd(14) is autistic and has dyspraxia. She’s at a mainstream school and has just started yr 10. My worry is that her handwriting is illegible, she can’t even read it herself! At school she has a full time LSA who scribes for her, but how is she going to be able to revise when it comes to GCSE exams? She will have a scribe or use a laptop for the actual exams but how can she make revision notes if she can’t read her own writing??
Does anyone with similar DC have any advice please?

Can DD type &/or use assistive tech to make revision cards? Or would she allow you to help her?

Does DD have an EHCP? If so, at the next AR, you could look to have the EHCP amended to include type for whoever scribes for her to make them with her.

For some subjects, you can buy ready made revision cards.

Some DC use audio material to help them revise or things like tassomai.

It is worth thinking about whether exam access arrangements will include a scribe, typing (or speech to text software, but you don’t mention that). If DD is to type in exams, it would help her to type in class now. In part because exam access arrangements need to be DD’s normal way of working.

Type them instead.

Thank you for your help and really useful suggestions. I haven’t heard of tassomai so will look into that. Yes, she has an ehcp and regularly types in class. My worry with her typing revision notes at home is that she’ll just mess around on her laptop as she’s very easily distracted. When I was revising for exams years ago, I found mind maps and drawing datelines etc really useful. I wonder if there are programs that could do similar as she’d struggle with this?

Someone else has suggested basing her revision around past papers instead of writing endless revision notes which could be useful.

I’m not too concerned about access arrangements for the exams, more the preparation she will need to do independently at home 😬.

Past papers can be very helpful. Although I would be careful not to start full past alerts too early otherwise you will run out of papers in the lead up to exams in Y11.

Theres lots of assistive tech and software DD could use. As part of DD’s EHCP has she had anyone look at this and what would work for her best?

If DD uses a laptop/tablet for revision you could put restrictions on it so she can’t just mess around.

I made DD's revision cards for her.