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Hi blog readers hope you are all well
I have been feeling a bit frustrated, a little annoyed with myself, maybe a little perplexed with the way things have been going over the last few months. I really want to push on with what we are doing at Dyslexia Pathways CIC and with my own goals also. But alas everything is practically at a stand still, moving in slow motion even.
Like many organisations and people its all about a lack of funds and income. But we also need more people on board who can support the work we are doing and want to do.
A couple weeks back I received an invitation to a conference on Disrupting Social Innovation, Pursuing Inclusive Opportunities Through Universities. Its being held at the Cambridge Judge Business School at Cambridge University.
I guess I received the invitation because if my background in inclusion, dyslexia and inclusion as well as my experience in working in universities and my social enterprise back ground.
Maybe its was the EU paper that said Dyslexia Pathways CIC was leading the way in social
inclusion.
Anyway I was fab to be invited. I think that's the one big difference this year. We are being contacted by organisations and invited to events much more that we were.
Alas it looks like I will be unable to raise the funding to get there and to stay over night, I just have not got the funds needed to attend.
So tomorrow I will have to e mail them to cancel my attendance. A really bad scene because a lot of heavy hitters are attending and it was an opportunity to get involved at a UK level with inclusion.
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.
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| photo above: we must enable dyslexics to fly not sentence them to failure |
#dyslexia is a difference that reflects #diversity. We need to unleash and nurture that potential not remediate or stifle it.
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