‘It’s more than confusing our b’s and d’s’: a commentary on the lack of understanding of the needs of social work students who have dyslexia

Drawing on principles of auto-ethnography, this commentary offers for discussion reflections on a personal reaction to some of the struggles experienced when navigating the English social work placement landscape for a student who has a diagnosis (or label) of dyslexia/dyspraxia. Commenting on some of the challenges faced in order to try and survive the placement experience necessary to complete the programme, this account makes recommendations and suggestions for educators in university and in practice.

Citation

Hewson, M. & Gant, V. (2020). ‘It’s more than confusing our b’s and d’s’: A commentary on the lack of understanding of the needs of social work students who have dyslexia. Critical and Radical Social Work, 8(2), 273–281. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986020X15945757313946

Publisher

Policy Press

Journal

Critical and Radical Social Work

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10034/623863

DOI

10.1332/204986020X15945757313946

Type

Article

Description

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in [insert name of relevant Policy Press journal here]. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Hewson, M. & Gant, V. (2020). ‘It’s more than confusing our b’s and d’s’: a commentary on the lack of understanding of the needs of social work students who have dyslexia. Critical and Radical Social Work, 8(2), 273–281 is available online at: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/crsw/2020/00000008/00000002/art00011;jsessionid=gh3fs7nql0er.x-ic-live-03 See more at: http://www.policypress.co.uk/info_archiving.asp?#sthash.NANITUAy.dpuf

ISSN

2049-8608

EISSN

2049-8675

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