What sort of support did they give you at this school that helped?
Well I had speech and language therapy lessons or I would go in once a week, well the person would be in school and I would have like a lunch time session with them once a week and I would go in one on one and we would talk about homework and sort of social situations and stuff that had happened during the week and then another thing was I would have someone who would help me with the school work in the lessons, they would help me with homework and writing and sort of making sure that everything was consolidated, I think, is the word, into easier sort of to remember notes, and I had that for the whole time I was there. Maybe it was a different session to the speech and language therapy and it would be in the morning before assembly or it would be like a, it would be a single period maybe once or twice a week.
And then there would be, and then for exams I would have someone to write for me, and someone.. someone to make sure that everything was correct, so the scribe would write for me and check things over with me and let me check my grammar, and I think that during my exams, helped me become more sort of vocal and I guess that is maybe where it came from. I mean I guess it is also partly because they were small classes. I mean the maximum class was about 12 during GCSE and then it dropped down to about four for AS. So I mean it was, you know, you got a lot of time with teachers and everything and …
