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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!

Well my old web designer, the lovely Matt Young, has gone and got a full time job, so I have been on the lookout for a new designer and finally found Sid! We had a meeting, set about some stuff and aimed to get the new website ready for The DDC’s 8th Birthday ….. A few ago I realised I had been too busy to actually do anything to celebrate The DDC’s 8th Birthday! And The ‘new look’ website we had been working on was taking longer than expected, due to certain things this dyslexic had not envisaged; like terms and conditions, photos and words! The dreaded getting words onto paper… now there’s a thing, when I am on a… Continue reading New Website

Working with a child this morning and they had asked me why something had happened, my response (and a honest one) was “because you are fab!” His response “huh! Fab, I don’t think so, I’m not fab, I can’t even work out what 7×4 is” Why is it that a child in the upper years of primary school should feel that he ‘isn’t clever’ just because he couldn’t work out straight away (like his peer) the answer to 7×4! Working with this young man on a one:one basis once a week I am privy to how exceptional his mind and intelligence actually is. I am of the opinion that once he has navigated the education system and is in the… Continue reading Why?

Welcome to day 7 of 7 of my celebrating dyslexia for Dyslexia Awareness Week 2014! Today I bring I’d like to introduce you to someone who is as passionate about enabling our fellow dyslexics as I am . . . Name: David Edwards – Dragon Dave Age (optional): 51 Business name: David Edwards A brief description of what you/your business do/does: Computer trainer on all areas of Assistive Technology on Windows and Apple Mac Area you live/your business is based: I live in the West Midlands. I cover West Midlands and London When did you find out you were dyslexic? 1998 – I was assessed for Dyslexia but it wasn’t explained clearly in plain English what it all meant – even… Continue reading Dyslexia Awareness Week 2014 Celebrating Dyslexia day 7 of 7