Schools, colleges and universities should never have been opened during covid?

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Hi followers and readers hope all is well with you all

Schools, colleges and universities should never have been opened during this pandemic. I have one of my students living in a house where two of his housemates have contracted corona.

All the support I do is happening online, lectures are happening online. University students could have stayed at home and done their course there.

I have another student who is really struggling with mental health and well being issues. I am not providing learning support I am supporting student mental health and well being. Every body from colleges, schools and universities to parents and children are struggling to cope in the most difficult of circumstances.

I am not blaming anyone but the way governments are trying to get us through this is not working. At least I have faith and trust in Nicola. But Johnson and Tory party have failed us at every turn. His response to corona is no way good enough.

What are your thoughts on this?

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

Steve McCue dyslexia and inclusion specialist and founder of Dyslexia Pathways CIC and Unique Dyslexic

Unique Dyslexic Eye Live and Unleashed

Hi all hope you are all well

This is a Unique Dyslexic Eye live and unleashed show from Facebook.

Unique Dyslexic Eye live and unleashed

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Steve Unique Dyslexic McCue

Dyslexia is not about discrepancy, deficits and disorder

 

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Hi blog readers hope you are all feeling fab

We need a coherent and globally united dyslexia community so we can fight for positive change for all of us. It seems to me we are all still stuck in a medical \ discrepancy model time warp. We are falling over ourselves trying to prove that dyslexia is a disability. That dyslexia is about discrepancy and disorder.

That is why I and my social enterprise support and promote the social model of dyslexia. Its a model created by dyslexics for dyslexics. It tells us dyslexia is about #diversity and difference. 

We have been trying to solve the issues we face using terminology and ideas that are embedded in medical modal thinking that in my view do not fit or work for us. The idea that dyslexia is a disability is imposed upon us by non dyslexic thinking.

We have to stop thinking in terms of disability and focus on the idea that dyslexia is about diversity and difference. If we are going to build a community do we want one based on a medical \ discrepancy model vision or social model of dyslexia vision?

What do you think?

Here is a link to my latest dyslexia / neuro diversity podcast

My latest Dyslexia / neuro diversity podcast

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all 

Steve McCue

My Unique Dyslexic Eye Podcast show episode 5

 

Hi blog readers and followers

https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-necqr-f19972

Here is our latest Unique Dyslexic Eye show. We feature 3 new tracks from 3 talented dyslexic / neuro diverse musicians. 

Also includes articles on dyslexia / neuro diversity and mental health and well being. Also includes an update on our successfully completed Kickstarter campaign. 

Many thanks to all those who backed and supported our campaign. If you are a dyslexic or neuro diverse musician or poet please accept this cordial invitation to send me recordings of your work to feature on my show. 

Just email me steve_mccue@hotmail.com so that we can arrange it. If you have something to share about your experiences of dyslexia and neuro diversity please contact me. Please share, follow or leave a like.

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

Steve McCue

Dyslexia Pathways CIC our response to Covid 19

 

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Hi blog readers hope you are all well

I founded my organisation Dyslexia Pathways CIC 12 years ago. We were the first dyslexia social enterprise in the world.

When Covid 19 hit all my dyslexia, neuro diversity and inclusion work stopped March 18th.

I had been thinking about starting a podcast for a while. So last year I took and HND in Broadcasting. My course was also impacted by Covid 19. So here I was no income and doing my course from home.

I set up Unique Dyslexic Eye Podcasting and Broadcasting as a response to Covid 19. The aim is to support and nurture the mental health and well being of the dyslexic and neuro diverse communities.

Here is a link to my 4th show

Unique Dyslexic Eye 4th show

If you a dyslexic or neuro diverse musician, poet or just have something to share with my audience please e mails me @ steve.mccue@uniquedyslexic.com or steve_mccue@hotmail.com.

Please give my shows a listen and leave a review of a like and share share share with your friends. 

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

Steve McCue

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Unique Dyslexic Eye Kickstarter success

Hi all hope you are all well

My Unique Dyslexic Eye Kickstarter a resounding success, many thanks to our 18 backers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCd3_mbAQxg

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

Steve McCue

 

A podcast I did for Dyslexia Explained

 

Hi all

A podcast I did for Dyslexia Explained a while back:

https://stevemccue.podbean.com/e/an-interview-i-did-for-dyslexia-explored/ Reaching out to the dyslexic and neuro diverse communities #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #wellbeing #dyslexia

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

Steve McCue