support you employees and unleash their potential

Well budgets are tight for all businesses, particularly training ones. But every business benefits from a  healthy and motivated staff. They are more productive, less likely to take time off due to illness and stress. A business can also serve its dyslexic / disabled customers more effectively by being dyslexia and disability friendly. Dyslexia is recognised as a disability under the disability discrimination act. Employers are required under this legislation to support disable and dyslexic staff by making reasonable adjustments. Dyslexia Pathways run regular dyslexia awareness training sessions which can be run for whole organisations or in groups with people from other organisations. This is probably the first step in raising awarness of dyslexia. Then its about providing a safe environemnt where staff can discuss any dyslexia / disability disclose they are dyslexic / disabled. Maybe have a named person in HR where people feel able and comfortable to disclose. I know it is not easy for small organisation to do this but the benefits from supporting disabled and dyslexic staff far outweigh the negatives. There is support available for employers to support dyslexic / disabled staff through the government Access to Work scheme. They can provide funds to buy assistive tech software if it required for dyslexic and disabled staff. Last time I worked with Access to Work they were able to provide 90% of the costs towards equipment for dyslexic / disabled staff. Businesses, training organisations, charities have to remember that 20% of the uk population is disabled, around 10% are dyslexic. Meeting their needs effecitvely can increase business turnover and enhance corporate image. So it makes sound business sense to be dyslexia / disablity friendly. Finally dyslexia friendly solutions can benefit non dyslexic staff. For example some dyslexics can benefit from using different colour background colours on computers. It not only enables a dyslexic to work more effectively it could help non dyslxic staff avoid eyestrain. This is a simple and free solution. Not all solutions cost money and solutions that do cost money there is support from Access to Work.