Employability Forum Presentation:
Well its a fab Monday Morning and start of a new
week here. Hope you are all well.
Lots has been going on here at Dyslexia Pathways CIC.
Last week I was invited Voluntary Action Fife to give a presentation on dyslexia at their Employability Forum. There were around 50 people there from various organisation in Fife. The presentation went very well, better than I expected. I was quite nervous but I received a lot of positive feedback from many people in the audience.
The event took place at the Fife Renewable Innovation Centre. Some of you may remember that in spite for four years studying and passing a BSc Hons in Geography I have no sense of direction at all.
Oh I found my way there fine but got totally lost on the way back. Took me around 30 minutes to get there and over an hour traveling around Fife to find my way home. I always get lost finding my way back lol.
Pecha Kucha event
I met with Gillian Parsons a couple weeks ago who is Programming and Engagement Officer at Fife Cultural Trust. I was meeting with another representative from the council re our plan to open a new dyslexia / neuro difference hub here in Fife.
One of the results of the meeting was an invitation to give a presentation on Dyslexia at the next Pecha Kucha event at the Fire Station Creative in Dunfermline. The fab thing about this is I can give a very visual presentation. I have already completed this and ready to go on June 30th.
I am hoping we might be lucky and find people willing to volunteer their time to support want we are doing.
A Pecha Kucha is a Japanese style way of giving presentations that are concise and fast moving. You have to prepare 20 slides and have 20 seconds to speak about each slide. But for this event we each have 7 minutes.....hmmmm talk about challenging lol.
Anyway my presentation is completed, including the script and I am feeling confident it will all go well.
More on our dyslexia awareness training and
feedback from the first session.
Some feedback from the first dyslexia awareness training session:
1/ More awareness of the impact on a person's
confidence and self esteem from childhood
through to adulthood
2/ Greater understanding of the difficulties and
issues in the work place re acknowledgement
of assessment of dyslexia
3/ Information about support tools Texthelp
4/ My Study Bar
5/ Breakdown the task / information
6/ Clearer understanding of how to look at
dyslexia
In 2016/17 Dyslexia Pathways CIC is working in
partnership with Healthy Working Lives Fife to
deliver four half day dyslexia and neuro difference
awareness training sessions in Fife.
This training is suitable for businesses,
organisations, individuals or anyone with an interest
exploring dyslexia and neuro difference.
Training runs from 10 am to 1 pm.
The cost has been part subsidised by funding
provided by Foundation Scotland and has been kept
to the low price of £30 per participant per training
session. I did explore way to make the training free
but was unable to find a way to do this
gain a better understanding of dyslexia and neuro
difference, from barriers to solutions.
We can also offer in house training for organisations
if required.
The training sessions will include:
ü What is dyslexia?
ü Definitions
ü Dyslexia and legislation (2010 Equalities Act etc)
ü How to be dyslexia friendly
ü Being dyslexia positive
ü Models of Dyslexia, (medical and social models of dyslexia)
ü Dyslexic strengths
ü Assistive technology and free dyslexia friendly options
If you would like to pre-book a place on one of
these training sessions, or find out more about them
or about other services we provide, please contact
Steve McCue on: 01592 756 187 or by email at:
stephen.mccue@dyslexiapathways.co.uk
these training sessions, or find out more about them
or about other services we provide, please contact
Steve McCue on: 01592 756 187 or by email at:
stephen.mccue@dyslexiapathways.co.uk
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