Disability Equality in Education, which supports mainstream education, has written an open letter after receiving complaints about how a leading exam board makes adjustments for students with a disability.
It says regulations and guidance issued by the Joint Council for Qualifications, the umbrella organisation that represents examination bodies, will "challenge the right of disabled students to show with adjustments what they can do, or know".
It highlighted a regulation that does not allow a reader to be present in subjects testing reading, such as English or English Literature. The council is interpreting the Disability Discrimination Act too rigidly and more students are being disadvantaged than before, it added.
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