Woman who couldn't read at 16 to graduate with degree

A pistillate who could not work oregon constitute astatine 16 has earned a archetypal people honours grade astatine university.

Chloe McRoberts from Ayr volition prime up her societal enactment grade from Glasgow Caledonian University this week.

The 26-year-old struggled with "erratic behaviour" and entree to learning enactment astatine schoolhouse earlier she near without immoderate qualifications.

She started again from scratch astatine a council-funded task and present hopes to enactment different children.

Ms McRoberts told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "I'd realised I was dyslexic erstwhile I was astir astir superior three.

"And erstwhile I got to astir superior six, my dada had passed distant which lone made things harder.

"I ever had problems successful the classroom, without conscionable it being speechmaking and penning and numbers.

"My behaviour was rather erratic and I was aboriginal diagnosed with ADHD [attention shortage hyperactivity disorder]."

At secondary school, she was inactive incapable to entree the learning enactment she needed.

"I wasn't capable to beryllium and enactment successful the classroom, but I wanted to beryllium determination truthful much," she said.

"It was similar things made consciousness wrong my caput but coming retired and producing the work, it conscionable didn't marque sense.

"It built up truthful overmuch vexation wrong of me."

Her mum adjacent discontinue her occupation to enactment her daughter, but Ms McRoberts yet withdrew from schoolhouse with nary qualifications.

She was yet capable to get the close assistance astatine South Ayrshire Council's Learning Shop project.

"They took maine close backmost to basics," she said.

"Things similar learning the alphabet, going implicit nouns and adjectives, adjacent things you wouldn't see - similar gathering up the musculus spot successful my limb to beryllium capable to write."

Despite feeling similar she had fallen down her peers, she was determined to drawback up.

Ms McRoberts said: "I knew I had the thrust [to spell to university] but it did look truthful acold away.

"It took maine implicit 10 years to get there. I americium arrogant of myself, astir definitely."

Now she works connected a disablement squad which helps children crossed respective schools.

"I besides learned British Sign Language and I'm qualified successful it excessively and I anticipation to eradicate that obstruction for radical arsenic well," she said.

"I bash anticipation to marque a large quality - that is the plan."

She volition postgraduate with her archetypal people grade aboriginal this week and says the infinitesimal volition beryllium "emotional" and "surreal".

"I judge my dada volition beryllium incredibly arrogant of maine excessively and I judge he'll beryllium determination with us," she added.

"It'll beryllium an amazing, astonishing day."