Dyslexic woman loses her discrimination appeal over Leaving Cert note

A WOMAN with dyslexia has lost her High Court claim she was discriminated against by the attachment of special explanatory notes to her Leaving Certificate indicating she was not assessed on spelling and certain grammatical elements in language subjects.

Before sitting the Leaving in 2001, Kim Cahill had requested and secured a waiver in relation to the examiner’s assessment of spelling and grammar in language subjects.

She claimed the annotations on her certificate effectively labelled her as disabled and she was greatly distressed by this.