iSheds  'Identification and Support in Higher Educaction for Dyslexic Students'

A European funded TEMPUS project for the Identification and Support in Higher Education for Dyslexic Students (ISHEDS) co-ordinated by Professor Angela Fawcett, Swansea University, Wales and involving partners in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia and Dr Ian Smythe (UK).

To address inequalities of provision for university students in the Western Balkan Higher Education Systems, the project aims to make an impact on policy and legislation because Bosnia-Herzegovina Hungary, Romania, and Serbia have no laws or guidelines or support for the child or adult with dyselxia.

 
Dyslexia is a reading and writing difficulty which affects more than a million students in higher education across Europe, and prevents many from even entering university despite their potential to succeed. However, in a number of countries it has been demonstrated that with appropriate support and resources the dyslexic student can not only survive but thrive in the competitive learning environment of universities. This project brings together expertise and experience from across Europe to develop a support system that will provide outcomes in the five key areas mandatory for successful implementation of support for dyslexics individuals. These are 1) Policy development, 2) Identification procedures, 3) ICT, 4) Training support officers and 5) Development of self-support systems for dyslexic individuals. The results and deliverables will directly inform and impact upon practice in member states (UK and Hungary), new member states (Romania) and Balkan states (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia). The outcomes will provide a basis for support that can be used in the languages of the partnership (Bosnian, Croatian, English, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian and Welsh), can be adapted by others for use in diverse languages, will be adapted for the bilingual contexts of the partnership (English-Welsh in Wales and Romanian-Hungarian in Romania), as well as used as a basis for the wider multilingual contexts to be found across Europe.