Author: Elizabeth Wilkinson

Dyslexia Awareness Week 2015: Day 2 Tuesday 6th October 2015. Allow me to introduce to you the second of my seven, 2015 fabulous dyslexics! Each dyslexia awareness week (starting last year) I intend to feature 7 of my favourite inspirational dyslexics form the past year: I ask them a set of questions (slightly adjusted depending on age and occupation) to which they provide the answers. I hope you find their answers as interesting and enjoyable and that they inspire you as they have me! My day 2 Positively Unique local dyslexic is a fabulous young lady who has an abundance of talent: she is also a Dyslexia information Day Young Volunteer, and is never short of a smile or a… Continue reading Dyslexia: Positively Unique!

  Dyslexia Awareness Week: Write to your MP? If you weren’t already aware, i thought i’d let you know that it is the 2015 Dyslexia Awareness Week (DAW), running from 5th – 11th October in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland it will run from 2nd to the 8th November. The British Dyslexia Assosiation (BDA) have set the 2015 theme as ‘Making Sense of Dyslexia’ they be “…look at how much of an impact the right support and interventions now can have on the future for people with dyslexia.” If you would like to learn more or get involved in Dyslexia Awareness Week then youi can contact them on media@bdadyslexia.org.uk or 0333 405 4555. you can find BDA Information… Continue reading Dyslexia Awareness Week: ‘Making Sense of Dyslexia’

Dyslexia Awareness Week 2015: Day 1 Monday 5th October 2015 Allow me to introduce to you the first of my seven, 2015 fabulous dyslexics! Each dyslexia awareness week (starting last year) I intend to feature 7 of my favourite inspirational dyslexics form the past year: I ask them a set of questions (slightly adjusted depending on age and occupation) to which they provide the answers. The aim of this is that i hope you find their answers as enjoyable as i did and that you are inspired! This year I am starting with a lovely local lady whom I have had the absolute pleasure of working with on a 1:1 basis recently: Name: Becci (Rebecca) Dickens Your Age (optional): 37… Continue reading Dyslexia: Postively Unique!

The 14th Dyslexia Information Day! I am over the moon that we are now on our 14th Dyslexia infomration Day! Form my little idea of having as much information under one roof as I coudl fit, in order to help families and fellow dyslexics access trustworthy & reliable dyslexia information, back in 2008, we are now on the 14th event! Dyslexia information Day 14 will be packed full of inspiration, positivity and Free advice & guidance, even if a little smaller than the last two mammoth events down at Enginuity.   Dyslexia information Day 14: Saturday 10th October 2015 we will be at Hadley United Services & Village Club, High Street Hadley, Telford, TF1 5PB Drop in between 11am –… Continue reading Dyslexia information Day 14!

National Autism Awareness Week 2015 blog 2, Do you know someone who is autistic? I bet there are people you know who are, but you aren’t aware! I get this all the time, when I tell people I have a diagnosis of mild autism, people are shocked and I usually get comments like: ‘Well I would never have known’ ‘Really?’ ‘No, you can’t be’ ‘You hide it so well’ It’s hard work to try and understand the world outside of dyslexia, talk to me about dyslexia or specific Learning differences, I can hold my own and am rather competent (even if I do say so myself!), but talk to me about local gossip or the latest episode of Eastenders and… Continue reading Autism Awareness Week Blog 2

This week is National Autism Awareness Week, and as someone who was diagnosed with Autism not so long ago I felt it pertinent to write a blog. I wanted to urge you, if you think your child is autistic, mild or severe please please please fight for their rights, fight for a diagnosis and fight for support and transition! I was diagnosed with autism nearly 6 years ago, if I had been diagnosed at school my life would have been substantially different, you can make changes and you can do it, If I had suspected or known about Autism when my son was younger I would have fought for his right to diagnosis a lot earlier than 17 – 18 years of age. I… Continue reading Autism Awareness Week 2015

I recently received a text from a mum who was in rather a state, as she had just discovered that no one in the secondary school knew her daughter was dyslexic! Diagnosed in primary school, this mum just assumed the paperwork had followed her daughter to secondary school, she also assumed that the school knew and were acting appropriately on this information. So now this mum has been told that the school is very sorry that they knew nothing about her daughter being dyslexic and has been told it is too late to go for any exam arrangements because there needs to be an updated profile & Learning Support Advisory Teacher (LSAT) report in order for exam arrangements to be made. I… Continue reading Time for change

Technology rocks! This morning I delivered some Read&Write Gold training, a programme/software created by TextHELP UK. This gentleman’s employers purchased the Read&Write Gold USB mobile version of the software for him to use for work, as it had been recommended to them, they then drafted me in to train him how to use it. So impressed with the software and its functions he could see ways that it could help him, not only in at work but also in his personal life too! Being on a USB stick it means that the programme is mobile and he will be able to use it for both! This afternoon, I saw another client who had previously had Read&Write Gold training, and in… Continue reading Technology Rocks!