Learning Enabled. Seven Students, Seven Stories

Tom,
Dyslexia

Synopsis

This film tells the story of Emily, a dyslexic undergraduate student. She is being taught by a lecturer who has recently begun to supervise Tom, a postgraduate student with dyslexia.

She visits her lecturer to discuss her coursework, and at that meeting she tells him about her dyslexia. The lecturer is able to point to a number of routes for additional support to help her with her studies. The meeting concludes with a plan of action.

However, students seeing Emily as she leaves the lecturer's office speculate that she has been given special treatment, and appear to be critical of this