Had a great day today working with two dyslexic students. Both are extremely bright individuals at university but both were struggling with assignements. One was even contemplating quitting. However, after working with them today we managed to sort out the issues and put together a plan of action for the following week.
I like to use self reflective learning with a lot of the students I work with. Its a great tool for self discovery, for exploring dyslexia issues both positive and negative and for finding psotive ways forward. I advise anyone working with dyslexics to consider using self reflective learning.
I also like to work with students to enable them to cope better with anxiety and stress so we looked at various was to deal with these more effectively. Personally I do not think enough work is done to enable students to cope better with stress and anxiety.
Academia can be a very stressful place for a lot of students not only dyslexic students. But a lot of dyslexic students have to work so much harder to cope with the rigours of academic life. Its not that we cannot do academia we just have to develop our own stratagies to become more effective and efficient students. Self reflective learning can be an invaluable tool for this.
We are nearly at the end of October and we are already well ahead of our targets for this academic year which is good news.
I am looking for people who might like to get involved in the work we do. Things like looking for prospective funders, writing funding bids, developing our web site or running a crowd funding campaign.
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