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| Dyslexic participants from Unique Dyslexic Fused Glass workshop receiving their certificates |
Hello there blog readers hope you are all well
Came across a new word from a Brian Eno lecture, Scenius = creative intelligence of a community. We often talk about the genius of an individual but what about the genius of a community and what a community can achieve together.
It struck me that if we are ever to move forward and develop a strong #dyslexic community we need to come together and combine our creative intelligence or dyslexic Scenius to overcome the barriers that the non dyslexic community places in front of us.
For me I see the biggest barrier as the idea that dyslexia is a disability that we are in some way less of a person than non dyslexics.
This is a result of the medical discrepancy model of dyslexia that society has been imposed on by a non dyslexic society and defined us with.
We have to discard this medical discrepancy model of dyslexia and consign it to history. This is because this model has got nothing positive to say to dyslexics or about dyslexia.
That's why I talk, write, scream from the rafters etc about the social model of dyslexia. This is because it talks about dyslexia in terms of diversity that we don't have disabled minds just different ones. It is not being dyslexic that disables it is society. For so many of dyslexics this disabling begins at school. More importantly the social model of dyslexia was developed by dyslexics for dyslexics. It is our model our solution to the issues we face on a daily basis.
Many thanks for reading and your feedback is important so please respond if you have something to say.
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