Last post before the Christmas holiday news on the opening of our new Dyslexia Pathways CIC online shop

 

Hi blog readers welcome to my latest dyslexia blog. I hope you are all well and prepared for the next few busy days ahead. Todays blog is all about the future and our plans to diversify what we currently offer.

 

NEW SHOP:

 

Our new online shop will be opening this week We are hoping this is the start of a new era for Dyslexia Pathways CIC. Some of you will already know we were the first dyslexia focussed social enterprise in the world.

 

A social enterprise means we have to have social aims and our over arching social aim is to support and promote the dyslexic and other neuro difference communities. But in order to achieve our social aims we have to bring in our own income through our business and enterprise work.

 

The idea behind the tee shirts is to enable dyslexics and people from other neuro different communities to advocate for a more positive profile of dyslexia and neuro difference. At Dyslexia Pathways CIC we believe that:

 

that #dyslexia is a difference that reflects #diversity 

 

that #neurodiversity is as important as #biodiversity.

 

Below is a link to our new online shop, please feel free to visit and if you like what you see please buy. Please give any feed back you have positive and negative. There are also images of the tees themselves that come in a variety of colours, sizes and men, women and child models.

 

http://stores.clothes2order.com/unique-dyslexic/dyslexic/

HEALTHY WORKING LIVES:

In 2016 we will be working in partnership with Healthy Working Lives in Fife to deliver dyslexia awareness training and other dyslexia services to business, organisations and individuals in Fife. This is a new programme for us and hope this may be the start expanding our business.

I have got to update our Dyslexia Pathways CIC site to start promoting this new programme.

Here is a link to their internet site:

http://www.healthyworkinglives.com/news/free-health-safety--wellbeing-help-for-fife-workplaces-857

 

 

DONATE SOCIAL BUTTON:

 

 

We have added s Donate Social button to our Unique Dyslexic Facebook page, Donate Social lets our followers make donations on your Facebook page using PayPal or a credit card. They can also invite their friends to donate to our cause.

Donate Social is free to use, does not take a cut from any donations, does not store any personal information, and does not use tracking cookies.

 

Any money raised will be used to help us with our work, keeping our web sites and social media running.

 

Below is a link to our Unique Dyslexic Facebook page and the graphic bellows highlights where the Donate Social button is.

https://www.facebook.com/Unique-Dyslexic-Get-Creative-1431413910440768/

 

 





 

If you like what you see please give us a like, or share your creative work or just press our Social Donate button and donate.

 

Anyway that's enough for todays blog. Please feel free to send me your dyslexia stories or leave a comment here.

 

We are having quite a big Christmas day doo this year. 18 members of the family will be coming for dinner so its going to be a busy day.

 

My thoughts go out to all those who, for what ever reason, will be struggling over the Christmas period. Lets hope 2016 will be a better year for everyone.

 

ta for reading

 

Steve

 

Here is a little song from fab dyslexic singer songwriter Bex Adams

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQ5LbdWz_U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

 

 

 



 

Some thoughts about dyslexia

Hi blog readers hope you are well

Some thing about dyslexia for us all to think about

Right now we have individual parents of dyslexic kids fighting our education system one at a time. Sometimes they win little victories and get support for their dyslexic kids. Most of the time they face long battles and get nowhere.

We as dyslexic adults need to get together to build a social movement where we can work together. Work together to bring positive changes to the current education system that up to now is still failing too many of us and our children.

Right now many of us are fighting for positive change from the bottom upwards. We have to influence those who are responsible for developing education policy. This can only be done if we work together and take this to those who make policy.

There needs to be political will to make the changes to our education system that will enable our dyslexic kids to succeed is school. Right now there is no political will to do this. Only by working together can we influence those who run our education system.

We have to make a much more positive case for supporting our dyslexic kids. We have to move away from an old outdated medical model of dyslexia that basically tells us our brains do not work correctly. That somehow we are not normal. That we are broken in some way. What does this say to potential employers about dyslexics? What does this say to our dyslexic kids?

I am not saying dyslexics do not need support at school. What I am saying is we need teachers in every classroom being trained to teach to meet the diversity of learning needs in the class room. To enable teachers to do their job of teaching our dyslexic kids together with their non dyslexic peers in a classroom.

Every day I visit Facebook I read real life stories about dyslexic kids and parents battles to get what is a human right to a good education. Stories about dyslexic kids not wanting to go to school. About parents seeing their children crying and frustration and fear about going to school. This is just not good enough at all.

I believe it is society that disables dyslexics and that's why I promote and support the social model of dyslexia. I am not saying it's a perfect model but it places the responsibility for the failure of our education to meet the learning needs of dyslexic kids  where it belongs. Not on the shoulders of dyslexic kids and parents. But squarely on the shoulders of those who shape our education system and politicians why are responsible for developing and running an education system that fails so many of us.

Dyslexics can and do succeed but many do so in spite of their education not because of it.

#dyslexia is a difference that reflects #diveristy. We need to unleash that potential not remediate or stifle it.

Tee shirt news:

We have finalised four designs for our new range of dyslexia and neuro difference positive tee shirts. The basic idea is to enable dyslexics themselves to advocate and support a more positive profile of dyslexia.  

We are nearly ready to put them on sale on our online shop front. Tee shirts will come in a variety of colours and sizes for men women and children.

The idea is to get our positive message out there, to make us more visible and who knows start a positive social movement?

 
Remember neuro diversity is as important as biodiversity......
 
regards
 
Steve and ta for reading....

PS:

Here are links to our websites and social media:

 

https://www.facebook.com/Unique-Dyslexic-Get-Creative-1431413910440768/?sk=app_415675701824636

https://www.facebook.com/groups/unique.dyslexic/ our facebook group page

https://www.facebook.com/stephen.mccue.5 my page

https://www.facebook.com/Unique-Dyslexic-Get-Creative-1431413910440768/ 

kinda like our Unique Dyslexic campaign

come business page

http://www.dyslexiapathways.com/ company web page

 

http://sdyslexia.blogspot.co.uk/ dyslexia blog page

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVKyJJgQWkYUa93-GdtX3fg you tube channel

https://twitter.com/DyslexicEye Twitter

https://uk.pinterest.com/raelthing/ Pinterest

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAAAdBzacBPEi2aZeiCBELxGTTQBM_mq3HKU4&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile Linked in

https://soundcloud.com/groups/dyslexia-musicians-group Soundcloud Page