Hello,
My son has HFA. For this he receives additional time in exams to read the papers.
On finishing GCSE's he got mostly A and B grades. However, he's finding the mock-exams at A-level grade difficult in that on his latest he got a U.
The problem is he fully understands the subject (and his other subjects) and probably knows more about it than the others but he simply cannot infer from the questions what they want him to say (he doesn't take things literally like answering 'yes' to questions requiring a full answer, just fails to pick out what is being inferred).
It seems the move to A-level is exaggerating this greatly.
It's really quite sad that someone who clearly fully understanding the entire topic to a high level will fail completely due to this.
Is there anything that can be done, e.g. (I doubt it but) is there a way exam questions can be altered to be more specific, or are there any books available where I/he can read to attempt to improve his ability to interpret questions, etc. ?
Thanks.