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Labelled participation

• A continual tension for the LEXDIS project team throughout the whole of the project was the extent to which we labelled our participants as disabled.
• many students reject the label "disabled" as assigned to them by higher education assessment (e.g. dyslexia screening) and benefit systems (e.g. DSA) because they do not consider themselves to be disabled, or because disability is not an integral part of their self-identity.