Monday, 28 November 2011

Many dyslexic children and pupils still go through school with their dyslexia unassessed and or with no dyslexia support. What is needed is teachers who are also dyslexic to act as mentors and role models or dyslexic students. Unfortunately, from one study / project I carried out, I know that many dyslexic teachers fear letting managers and employers know they are dyslexic. Mainly becasue they concerns it would affect their career and job prospects and from my experience it does. I am someone who is very pround and happy to be dyslexic and shout it out from the rooftops that I believe being dyslexic is a very positive thing that it does impact on your career and on how management look at you. There are to many negatives attached to dyslexia and not enpugh focus of the positives. Many of those negatives have been put their dyslexia specialists who continually focus and find new negatives to attach to dyslexics. If dyslexic teachers have concerns about, "being found out", as being dyslexic then what does that say to dyslexic students?

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