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Stigmatisation: Focus group discussion

• Steph I find this - that you get stigmatised, as such (I call myself special, because I am special!), but people are almost jealous of the facilities you have access to and they don't. […] They are not sneering at you because you are dyslexic , they are almost jealous that you can sit at a PC there, there is specially for you- you have got all this software available to you..
• Andy L In my department everyone's got technology. They've all got laptops etc. Some of them might record their lectures, not because they are dyslexic or anything like that, it is just because they do the recording so that they can revise from them and it's quite often that they track these people down [e.g. disabled students] not to give them dirty looks or anything, but to say "can I borrow your recorder?".
• SarahD You are given the technology, to make it all even, but sometimes it is making you ‘separate' again.