Saturday, 4 January 2025

Unique Dyslexic Get Creative video




Hello all, hope you all had a restful Christmas and New Year

The Unique Dyslexic Get Creative movie that shows some of the work people created at the five Unique Dyslexic Get Creative workshops. There is an introduction from myself and an introduction to campaign and being positive about dyslexia.

Filmed, scripted, edited and music put together by myself.

I had two heart attacks in the middle of delivering Unique Dyslexic Get Creative. It kinda got in the way a bit. I had planned to make a more extenisve video with more subtitles etc. But I was struggling with meeting Lottery deadlines. Thank you to everyone who funded and supported the work and to all those who came along to the workshops.

Unique Dyslexic Get Creative workshop video

Your comments and feedback are welcomed

Thanks for taking the time to watch the video.

Steve #UniqueDyslexic McCue

#PeaceLoveGrooveyness from me

Thursday, 2 January 2025

Supporting the social model of dyslexia.

 

social model of dyslexia and social enterpsie a more empowering, inclusive and positive way forward

just a photo of me with my I am dyslexic logo

Good day to all my blog readers

I believe the medical discrepancy model of Dyslexia has gotten us pretty much nowhere. The dyslexia is about deficites, disorder and discrepency. This model say it's we dyslexics that are the problem. It makes no mention of diversity and difference. 

That's why my social enterprise, Dyslexia Pathways CIC, (Community Interest Company,) promotes and support the social model of Dyslexia. 

We see the social model of dyslexia together with social enterprise offers the dyslexic community a more inclusive, positive and empowering way forward. The social model tells us it is society that disables and here is how society does. 

My own research showed only 19% of dyslexic adults were assessed while at school. That the majority of adults assessed as dyslexic were assessed while at university. 

But you have to remember only about 5% of undergraduates are dyslexic while in the UK research shows around 10% of the population are dyslexic. Society disables us in so many ways and this disabling starts from day one at school for many of us and does not stop even at higher education level.

#PeaceLoveGrooveyness from me

Steve #UniqueDyslexic Mccue