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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… Continue reading Dyslexia: Positively Unique!
Author: Elizabeth Wilkinson
Since entering the field of dyslexia back in 2000, The Dyslexic Dyslexia Consultant - Elizabeth Wilkinson MBE, has worked with and provided support for thousands of people, including businesses, families, and educators.
Dyslexia Awareness Week: ‘Making Sense of Dyslexia’
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… Continue reading Dyslexia Awareness Week: ‘Making Sense of Dyslexia’
National Diviersity Awards Nomination
WOW WOW & WOW! The Dyslexia Information Day team & I are delighted and over the moon to have been nominated for a National Diversity Award: Community Organisation! form monr infomration about the National Diversity Awards pelase visit www.nationaldiversityawards.co.u
Dyslexia: Postively Unique!
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… Continue reading Dyslexia: Postively Unique!
Dyslexia information Day 14!
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… Continue reading Dyslexia information Day 14!
Autism Awareness Week Blog 2
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… Continue reading Autism Awareness Week Blog 2
Autism Awareness Week 2015
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… Continue reading Autism Awareness Week 2015
Dyslexia careers …
On Thursday 19th March 2015 the lovely Jim Hawkins & BBC Radio Shropshire were kind enough to invite me to a phone interview about Dyslexia Information Day being nominated for the ‘Community Organisation Award – disability category’ at the National Diversity Awards 2015 One of the questions Jim asked me for me thinking; Jim asked… Continue reading Dyslexia careers …
Time for change
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… Continue reading Time for change
Technology Rocks!
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… Continue reading Technology Rocks!