Re: An LD Student Who Needs a "Scribe"

[Nick Carbone <ncarbone@lamar.ColoState.EDU>]

Suzanne,
	We had a similar situation last year--a woman with a closed head
brain injury who had some trouble writing, but she would do most of her
own writing before hand, then come in w/ the text. Often she would read it
outloud to the tutor, who would stop her on ocassion because their were
some words she couldn't see or couldn't write. For example, she might say,
as she typed, "I opened the furnance door," but she would write, "I opened
the furniture door."  On rereading, she might notice she had furniture,
and sometimes she'd write furnance and sometimes not.

	It was strange. So often the tutor would say, 'you wrote furniture
here, and said furnance, which is correct?' and the person would say what
and the tutor might write it.

	But since the person you're dealing w/ essentially wants
dictation, then getting a copy of Dragon Dictate or some other software is
the way to go. If you've got it in your budget, it's not bad to have in
any event. But even beyond that, I think you're right to ask this person
to start by typing their own stuff; they might not need a scribe so much
as a pair of eyes.

Nick

-- 
Nick Carbone, Writers' Center Director
CSU Writers' Center (http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/WritingCenter)

ncarbone@lamar.colostate.edu