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Sat 06 Jun 2010Dyslexic woman loses Leaving Cert bias case
A WOMAN with dyslexia has lost her High Court claim that she was discriminated against by the attachment of special annotation 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 secured a waiver in relation to the examiner’s assessment of spelling and grammar in language subjects. She claimed the annotations or explanatory note on her certificate effectively labelled her as disabled, and she was greatly distressed by this.
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