Student denied dyslexic facility

A STUDENT with dyslexia has had his request for Leaving Cert exam concessions turned down despite a psychologist’s report saying he should qualify.

Edwin Murphy, an 18-year-old student in St Peter’s community school in Passage West, Cork, has been told by the State Examinations Commission that “it is the opinion of the psychologist that within the terms of the scheme he does not warrant reasonable accommodations”.

This is despite the fact that a psychologist’s report commissioned by his mother, Eileen, strongly recommended he should be eligible.