Neurodiversity Stories 🎙

Delighted to announce the next guest for my Neurodiversity Stories 🙌  Karen Cousins - Music and Dyslexia Educator, Coach and Author of Dyslexia and Success.   Topic of talk: Dyslexia and how the strengths that come from having dyslexia can be nurtured and supported.   I understand Dyslexia from every angle, as a specialist music and dyslexia teacher, a parent of 2 children with dys...

Delighted to announce the next guest for Neurodiversity Stories 🙌  Matthew Head - Senior Vehicle Design Engineer and Founder of Dyslexia Hacks.    Topic of talk: Dyslexia and being a mechanic that become an engineer.   Matthew is a life long dyslexic (He got statement at 6 years old). Fell out with education after college at 18 and spent most of his early 20’s as a lorry mecha...

Delighted to announce the next guest for my Neurodiversity Stories    David Anson - Senior Auditor    Topic of talk: How playing to your strengths can give you a better window of opportunity and how that has worked for me.   David will also touch topics such as resilience and grit but expect strengths will be the main theme. He will discuss how playing to your strengths ca...

Delighted to announce the next guest for my Neurodiversity Stories    Guest: Christine Ramsay, CDP (Certified Diversity Professional)   Title: We have the power to change how we see neurodivergent humans and how neurodivergent humans see themselves.   In this talk we guide neurodivergent humans to unlock their inner genius and superpowers through a holistic approach to wellbein...

Delighted to announce the next guest 🙌   Kim To   Title: My journey as a British south East Asian women being diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD in early to late 20s and my reflections on why this is not talked about in the asian community  Kim will be discussing her journey/ experience of being diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD later on in her adult years and reflect on what this exp...

Delighted to announce the next guest for my Neurodiversity Stories 🙌 Guest: Olive Hickmott Topic of talk: Are we all born dyslexic? Olive had many Dyslexic and ADHD traits all her life. She will tell the story of how she changed her own experiences and taught 1000s of others through a network of trained practitioners, across the world. After 20 years in the world of neurodiversity, where she advo...

Delighted to announce the next guest for my Neurodiversity Stories  🙌   Guest: Kieren Windsor    Topic of talk: A parents experience of their son's ADHD    We are always looking for personal stories of Neurodiversity from all angles and we are delighted to welcome Kieren to understand a parents experience of his sons ADHD.   Come and join us to hear Kieren's inc...

Delighted to announce the next guest for my Neurodiversity Stories  🙌   Tricia Cook, MEd, RSP, AOG, Online Dyslexia Tutor, Author    Title: Overcoming My Dyslexia By Realising It HAD To Happen   Tricia will share her story :  "I was held back once and almost twice. Diagnosed in second grade. I thought ‘I was stupid, couldn’t do anything right and everyone hated me.’...

Delighted to announce the next guest for my Neurodiversity Stories  🙌   Sally Coles-Robertson SRSH 📖    Title: "Women Entrepreneurs & Employers in the Workplace"  My motto and mission are: “there is always a way to seek the common good”.  I want to leave a legacy and urge women with this diversity, to lift you up onto a pedestal and cheerlead all the other hidde...

Delighted to announce the next guest 🙌   Beatrice Freeman   Story Title : "Different And Highly Valuable - The Autism Spectrum"     Beatrice's shares her own experience and own conclusions and advice how to work with us. The autism spectrum hasn't got a clearly defined picture; you could say the the common denominator is that there isn't a common denominator. This is beca...

Delighted to announce the next guest 🙌   Mark Stoddart Ambassador for Dyslexia Scotland.   Story Title : My life with Dyslexia   Mark Stoddart is an Ambassador for Dyslexia Scotland.   For the past 30+ years he has been designing & selling, what you would call, functional art: Bronze Sculptures converted into coffee & dining tables for use indoors & outdoors. he no...

Delighted to announce the next guest 🙌  Liz ( Day ) Loly -  How Neurodiverse children have taught me so much.    As a trainee PE teacher, Liz became interested in dyspraxia and chose to do an assignment about what it is, the effects of it and how to help a child overcome some of the challenges. Then in her first teaching job, she taught a dyslexic boy who she thought was so in...

Delighted to announce the next guest 🙌  Catrina Anne Lowri - Why it’s important that all teachers have an understanding of Neurodiversity.    Catrina is dyslexic and a bipolar teacher who hid her diagnosis until very recently. Since she started to talk about it more it’s led her to a whole new perspective, new career as an educational mentor and coach and a better understanding of...

Thinking Differently an Autism and Dyspraxia Journey    Jack Fitzpatrick is an incredible individual who is doing truly wonderful things in the Neurodiversity World. In this interview Jack explains how he has worked with an incredible Organisation and implemented systems that will help Neurodivergent staff succeed.   Alongside this we discuss the following:   Early diagnos...

We need relatable hero's when we are Dyslexics.  Some of us struggle to connect with the multi millionaire as it just seems too far away.    I am interviewing more people like Darren Clark who was a trolley boy at his local supermarket and worked his way up the ranks. He escaped to start his own business and support dyslexics across the world.    Let's not make this too wo...

Darren Clark struggled in school with undiagnosed dyslexia but is now an Ambassador of the British Dyslexia Association.     Watch more NTV Kenya videos at ntv.co.ke and nation.co.ke. 

I'm absolutely delighted to share with you our next guest Robert Keates   Robert will share his journey of being in arts and how he embraced the culture he was in and worked to find his power within his dyslexia which is now fuelling his future as a transformational coach specialising in dyslexia.   Also this will bring up how as a society the belief is that people with dyslexi...

its the monthly Parenting Programme by Julie This week  The show will be looking at the subject of Dyslexia with special guest Darren Clark who was not diagnosed until his Thirties .  We will hear of his experience and then look at tips and strategies for parents of dyslexic parents .

Im absolutely delighted to share with you our guest Suzy Taylor    Suzy explains:   I am one of the people who acquired dyslexia/dyspraxia. I can link this back to the illness I had as a child.   I was diagnosed as a child as dyslexic. I did not know about the dyspraxia till later in life.  I had an accident after my work one day. This was through a badly parked van....

Im absolutely delighted to share with you our second guest Richard Semmens   Richard will be sharing his own lived-experienced of Autism & ADHD (and late diagnosis in his 50's), He is now running a social enterprise which supports hundreds of families with Neurodiverse children.   I can't wait to hear this story and would welcome anyone who would like to know more about Autism and ADHD to come and...

Neurodiversity Stories 🎙 Episode 1 Im absolutely delighted to share with you our first guest Katherine Nicholls Katherine shared with us how she deals with Dyscalculia and the steps that she has taken managing this will inspire you. I can't wait for you to hear this story and would welcome anyone who would like to know more about Dyscalculia to give it a watch. If you would like to appear on one o...

Have you ever got on the plane ✈️ and then asked to get off and then have armed guards point their guns at you 🤦🏻‍♂️ This is just some off the adventure that happened to me last year while traveling to Malawi 🇲🇼 to raise awareness for dyslexia Check out the podcast 🎧

We left off from episode one with Darren having left school with no qualifications, desperate for a job and to find some self worth. Finally he lands himself a 12 hour per week job with Sainsbury's pushing trolleys, after being somewhat flexible with the truth of his grades. Today we discover how that journey took him from that position to a regional manager for Tesco, and his continual battle wit...

In this first episode Kelly Holbrook interviews Darren Clark who shares with us a frank account of being a child with un-diagnosed dyslexia. We explore the crime, violence and bullying alongside the stereotyping he faced growing up, and the detrimental effect this had on his mental health.