dyslexia, neuro diversity, social enterprise the way ahead for me and Dyslexia Pathways CIC an updated version

Art installation by me from our Unique Dyslexic Get Creative Visual Art workshop called dyslexia its about diversity

Good morning and welcome to everyone from myself here Glenrothes in Scotland. Hope you are all well.

Dyslexia awareness news:

We successfully ran 5 dyslexia awareness training session here in Fife over the past few months in 2016. Have to say the training was fabtastic even if I do say so myself lol........not that I am biased in anyway lol. Everyone gave us a  4 or a 5 out of 5 for the sessions.

Some feedback from participants:

• Very informative and knowledgeable
• Got a better understanding of dyslexia
• Ideas to help people with dyslexia
• Learned a lot very enjoyable
• Social / medical differences
• Ideas to assist people with dyslexia
• Thoroughly enjoyed the training session, very informative
• What methods I can use to support staff with dyslexia - mind mapping computer skills etc
•  Understanding of dyslexia drawing of bottle with short term / long term memory was excellent way of explaining

So you can see lots of positive feedback. However, would like to take the training further afield to Edinburgh or Dundee etc. So if anyone can host my dyslexia awareness training and would like to help market it locally give me a call.

I am planning to run more dyslexia awareness training in 2017.

The cost is £35 per participant and if an organisation wants to host training a member of their staff can attend for free.

Ideally I would need between 6 to 15 participants for the training to make it financially viable.

 Big news on Lottery funding:

Above Big Lottery Logo

Funding News:

As many of my regular readers will know we already successfully delivered a lottery funded project called Unique Dyslexic Get Creative.

Since then we have been waiting for a suitable Big Lottery Fund programme we can apply for to develop our new dyslexia / neuro different hub here in Fife..

I am currently writing a stage one application for funding from The Big Lottery Improving Lives fund to enable us to move forward with developing our proposed dyslexia and neuro diversity hub in Lochgelly. This will be completed next week.

We have also managed to secure support from Fife Centre for Equalities with this application and support with developing our dyslexia hub idea.

Its a two stage process and we can access support from the Big Lottery through the Improving Lives Fund itself and from other organisations attached to the Big Lottery. the first stage involves the answering of four questions. This is nearly completed.

• We already have two project proposals written that fit this funding
• We already have a feasibility study completed and had an offer for a free access audit
• We have an architects report on the proposed site in Lochgelly done
• We have budgets for renovation of the proposed site done

We would like to invite other organisations, particularly organisation in Lochgelly, or people or organisations anywhere in Fife to join us in our plan to open our new hub here in Fife.

Just give me a call 07828741473 if you would like to get involved or want to chat to us about this. If we are going to make this a success then we need more people involved and maybe a little funding as well.

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Dyslexia and neuro diversity at school:

All class teachers should be given the training needed to meet the diversity of learning needs of every child in their classrooms during their teacher training. They also need to be given the time to develop and deliver inclusive learning opportunities for every child in their classrooms.

It is every dyslexic child and adult's human right to have access to an education that will enable them to learn and succeed within education. It is not good enough that our education system continues to fail and marginalise so many of our dyslexic children and adults.

It is an outrage that so many dyslexic children leave school with out achieving according to their potential and with low self esteem and self confidence. It is not acceptable that so many of us leave school with mental health issues that can have life long impact. The same needs to b said for children from neuro diverse and disabled communities.

There is no doubt there are some fab schools and professionals doing fabtastic work with dyslexia, neuro diverse and disabled students. But they are few and far between and it has to change.

50% of NASA employees are dyslexic, 35% of entrepreneurs are dyslexic, dyslexics are fab our of the box thinkers, big picture thinkers, unique problems solvers. 

Dyslexia can and do excel in  across the whole spectrum of our society including: art, computer science, design, drama, electronics, math, mechanics, music, physics, sales and sports

Dyslexia is a difference that reflects diversity and what a fab difference it is

Dyslexia Pathways CIC DONATE SOCIAL Crowd Funding:

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 to support our work.

Anyways thanks for taking the time to read my blog. Please share it with others who you think might enjoy it as well please.

Regards

Steve

PS oh almost forgot my blog has had over 46000 reads so far maybe 50.000 in a month or so.

Since writing this blog my blog reads has reached over 70,000 so in your face all those medical model of dyslexia proponents that tell us we cannot write or spell lol.