Dyslexia Explored

Helen Wells shares her perspective as a Special Education Needs Coordiator in a school for 10 years. Shares her story of how she began as an art school graduate and became a primary school teacher by primarily learning on the job with a special program for teachers. How her head teacher inspired, and pushed her, into the job of SENCO in the school. Her rapid learning of the field and how she has f...

"The Dyslexic Advantage" is one of the most highly recommended books on dyslexia for good reason. The team and I are going to go on a journey where we read it, map it, review it and draw out practical applications chapter by chapter, incorporating your questions and comments too. It's a treasure trove of 26 chapters packed with helpful info for parents and tutors. I’m recording this...

#12 Benedict Phillips, Artist, and Consultant. 3D Thinkers in a 2D world. Wonderfully creative and gently humerous Benedict Phillips shares about his severe dyslexia. A whistle stop tour of his story: - His school years. - 6 years of special educational lessons in a regular school. - Being illiterate at 16 - Excelling at Art School. - His ranting years. - The creation of the ‘Benedictionary’ to he...

#11 Darius Namdaran, LDF 5/6 How Mind mapping can help dyslexics in High School. Darius Namdaran. M.D. of Mindmap Studio gives a talk to help teenagers understand the power of mind mapping. He describes dyslexia from the outside, the inside and how you can use mind mapping in a certain way to bring order to the creative chaos of a dyslexics mind! This talk is published to celebrate International D...

#10 Dr. Paula Clarke, 4/6 Leeds Dyslexia Festival. Effective Reading approaches. Dr. Paula Clarke, Associate Professor at the University of Leeds presented " Making meaning from what we read: Effective approaches for supporting learners to understand the text." Dr Clarke explains some of the reading approach models and how they can be helpful as a framework to understand how to help peop...

Episode #9 Keynote speaker; Professor Jonathan Glazzard, Leeds Beckett University. The Impact of Dyslexia on Students’ Sense of Self. He tells the story of a School inspection sunk by Headteacher fighting for 4 Dyslexics. How a school inspection felt like from a head teachers perspective. Half of his students had strong dyslexic traits. It was unusual. The head teacher had a hard choice that echoe...

To celebrate International Dyslexia Week 2018 we are going to do a Leeds Dyslexia Festival 'Series' Day 2/6. We will publish one of the main talks given. Episode #8 Address from Lynn Greenwold O.B.E., CEO of PATOSS, a network of 1800+ private assessors and tutors, explains how this Festival grew from one of their local professional development groups. Originally conceived as a local traini...

To celebrate International Dyslexia Week 2018 we are going to do a Leeds Dyslexia Festival 'Series'. Each day we will publish one of the main talks given at the festival. Episode #7 CEO of The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) gives the opening address and tells the story of the BDA from 1972. One of the first dyslexia associations in the world. The UK has often been at the forefront of D...

Part 2 Of Dr Sionah Lannan and Colin Lannan talking about their experience starting a dyslexia school. They talk about practical things they found working in the Highschool for Dyslexics including Mindmapping, desk arrangements, music and tech. Get ivvi notes now: https://ivvi.dev/   Dyslexia productivity coaching?: http://dyslexiaproductivitycoaching.com/   Dyslexia Quiz: https://bulletmapacademy...

This is a story about how a child psychologists dream of a dyslexia school happened. It ended up being one of the few publicly funded UK Dyslexia High Schools. It began in 1997 with Dr Sionah Lannan and Colin Lannan. There is so much useful information in this story. Get ivvi notes now: ⁠ https://ivvi.dev/ ⁠   Dyslexia productivity coaching?: ⁠ http://dyslexiaproductivitycoaching.com/ ⁠   Dyslexia...

Lee shares her story as a teacher who discovered the impact of dyslexia the hard way, through her child. She tells her story of how she started as the accommodating mum, then became a 'bossy parent', found breakthrough with phonics in Newcastle Australia, then brought it to Sydney and now runs a service from a medical practice helping 60-70 children a week to read and deal with dyslexia in...

31yrs answering a Dyslexia Helpline. Pat Payne shares her story so far. Talking about her sons experience, the solutions they found, teachers and professionals they met. The creation of Yorkshire Rose Dyslexia (Formerly Leeds and Bradford Dyslexia Association). Her experiences on the help line. How things have changed (or not changed). And the unexpected huge interest in the Leeds Dyslexia Festiva...

Maggie Hunt tells her story on the podcast this week. Her teachers thought she 'cant be dyslexic' because she was doing well at school and had good reading and writing. She tells an interesting story of how her Dyslexia didn't really start tripping her up until the exams, and it wasn't until she had enrolled in Languages and History at University that her tutors helped her identify...

How two teachers and comics helped a Dyslexic teenager ace an exam, get into art school, and start a business. Rossie Stone tells his story of dyslexia through his childhood and High School. How he was inspired to start a business creating comics for children in school to both entertain them and educate them in their school subjects, as he did for himself when it came to exams. Get ivvi notes now:...

"Dyslexia Stories" is here to encourage parents through the turbulent teenage years. Launching August 2018. In June/July we will be recording many people from all walks of life sharing their Dyslexia story. Dentists, Artists, Teachers, Tutors, Business people, Parents, Assessors, Oil Riggers, Jewellers etc. All sorts, with a whole range of Dyslexia, some identified and some self identifi...