Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth
Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Donald Ewing:
We have far too high a tolerance for stress in our young people. Exams are stressful for everybody but exponentially more so for children with dyslexia. We are inured to that as a society and we should stop doing it. As a psychologist, it is high time we particularly addressed this institutional acceptance every June that we put our youngest and most vulnerable people through things they often struggle to recover from. It is about time we did everything we can to level the playing field but also to make sure that all students are not defined by a week in June for the rest of their education or lives.
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