I assessed a Lord Mayor of Lambeth who was in his 60s. He was a fab team leader had fab empathy, high emotional intelligence and knew how to delegate and communicate. He was also dyslexic and been doing the local politics gig for 30 years.
Dyslexia gives us so much, so many advantages but for many of us our education systems still fail us. But even without a dyslexia assessment or any dyslexia support we can succeed and achieve.
Society disables dyslexics and this disabling begins in schools that still fails to teach far too many of us in ways we can learn and taught by teachers not trained to teach us within inclusive learning environment.
There are some fab schools and brilliant teachers doing great work out there but we in the dyslexia world need many more of both.
We are still using a discrepancy model of dyslexia that tells us our brains are broken and do not work normally.
This is a fallacy we are not broken or disabled we are different. Dyslexia is a difference that reflects diversity #uniquedyslexic #vivaladifference. Our education systems need to enable us to learn and enable dyslexics to embrace their dyslexia.
Yes dyslexics do need support in schools colleges, university and in the workplace but not because we are disabled. We need the support because we are dyslexic. There is a difference. In a neuro diverse society we need to enable all to succeed according to their abilities and skills.
The old discrepancy model of dyslexia has gotten us precisely nowhere. We dyslexics need to change this ourselves. We at Dyslexia Pathways CIC support and promote the social model of dyslexia.
neuro diversity is as important as biodiversity different mind = different and innovative solution
anyway that's enough for my blog today
peace love and groovyness to you all and a great big well done to every dyslexic warrior and hero out there. Remember being dyslexic or the parents of a dyslexic can be an isolating experience. So remember
regards
Steve McCue
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