The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show Matt is talking to Maggie Souter and Sally Ashcroft who run Handy Spelling , a company which produces ingenious stationery to help children with dyslexia. There products include, pencils and rulers which help you remember tricky spellings and write the date. Tattoos and stickers to help you remember left/ right and b/d reversals. Bookmarks to explain...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is a talking to Kirsty Heap who specialises in coaching dyslexic leaders.  In this podcast we talk about Kirsty’s time as school where she had supportive parents that got her the help she needed. Thought to the beginning of her working life where she came to a point in her career where she realised, she needs a master’s degree to progress furth...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Phillip Ruddock who is the founder of Our Dyslexic Connection. His day job is working as an english teacher at Middlesbrough College where he applies his lessons learned during his own dyslexic experiences to help people who have failed their GSCE's to get the grades they need. In this podcast Phill talks openly and deeply ab...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Kate Gladstone who has developed a program and published a book to help people with reading and writing in cursive. In this podcast you will hear Kates story of struggling to read at school and the horrible thing she was told when she voiced her struggles, including being told to copy lettering of a board and then being told she d...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking Jason Flinter. Since 1996 he has been working on building brands. Jason has self-diagnosed with dyslexia; you will hear during this podcast how he finds out more and more about what dyslexia and how is life and career has been positively shaped by it and we look into how things were different for his much younger sister. Despite only...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talk to Eric Cheung who current works as the  Relationship & Partnership Officer for the British Dyslexia Association. He has had a varied life after find out he was dyslexic at university, he went on to set up his own event and marketing business while studying the final years of his degree before going to moving into a roll as an event...

In the episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talks to Cassandra Rollett-May who runs Rollett Ed , that provides one to one support for 6- to 13-year-olds in maths and literacy. Cassandra had a dream to be a teacher from a young age, having set her sights on this goal she had to take a longer route through the education system before qualifying as a school teacher. In the podcast we talk...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we talk to Ian Sudlow-Mckay, he works as site librarian for the University of Chester .  He has always had a strong interest in history but he was told by a career advisor when at school, that he should go get a trade job. Ian managed to gain the confidence to obtain not just one degree but 3 master degrees including on from the University of St Andr...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we talk to Emma Downer, who is the founder of DIY with Emma which provides DIY hacks, how-tos and follow along projects across social media, with regular video uploads too TikTok and YouTube. Emma has long had the entrepreneurial spirit when as a child she decided her pocket money was not enough and starting cleaning cars for her neighbours. This car...

In this episode of the Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we are talking to Deborah Leveroy PHD, who is neurodiversity and inclusion lead at Dyslexia Box . Deborah has worked as an actor performing in both London and Edenborough Fringes. As she continued with her acting career, she devolved an interest in how dyslexia can affect actors, this led her to take a PHD where her thesis called Enabling Performance...

It this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, I talk to Rachel Morgen-Trimmer, she is a Neurodiversity consultant providing training through her company Sparkle Class . She is autistic and has ADHD, Rachel has won a Rose Award for her poster on Autism.  In this podcast we talk about the relationship between dyslexia (Matt) and hyperlexia (Rachel) and how people with different neurodiversity’s c...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show we talk to Arran Smith who is the founder of Dyslexia Show , this is a live event happening in the Birmingham NEC with the Inaugural event happening on the 25th to 26th March 2022. This event had many exhibiters and speakers on all thing’s dyslexia including Matt who is speaking on the Saturday at 3pm. As well as understanding the idea and drive behi...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, we are talking to Kelly Monday, who works for Microsoft and has recently been promoted to Consumer Channel Sales Director (at the time of recording she was the Global Account Manager for WPP). She discovered she was dyslexic at 19 years old during the early stages of university studies, this allowed her to get the right support during her studies. K...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we talk to Wes Baker . He has had a diverse career, starting off as a biomedical scientist were he found could put his dyslexic talents to good use, in particular pattern recognition when looking at test results. He realised that he wanted a new challenge and moved in the NHS graduate scheme and retrained as an accountant, gaining his chartership. He...

This is a bonus episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, in this podcast is the audio of an webinar on Dyslexia in Engineering that Matt did along with the IET Derby/Notts local network, which is part of the IET East Midlands network. IET stands for The Institution of Engineering and Technology which is one of the professional engineering institutions in the UK a person who is a Chartered Engineer...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, we are talking about reading pens with Lauren Jeffery Area Sales Manager for OrCam . OrCam have been developing reading cameras for the blind and visual impaired since 2010, there latest product the OrCam Read provides a portable reading pen that dyslexics can use to help with reading problems. In this podcast, we talk about how OrCam moved into the...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, we talk to Ben Hurst who is a racing driver. He has raced for Aston Martin Academy and BMW. Like fellow racing drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jackie Stewart, dyslexia assists him when racing. Having only started racing at 16 he a quickly started winning and has rose through the ranks, hear how dyslexic visitations skills helps him learn the car and set...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt talks to Nicola James the founder of Lexxic . She started it in 2007 and it has grown to over 50 employees. They provide psychologists that assist organisations in making environments that neurodiversity can thrive.  In this podcast Nicola shares how she found out she was dyslexic in her last year at university. This lead to a big change for he...

In the episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we take a deep dive into dyscalculia with Marni Spicer, co-founder of dyscalculia.me and Table Fables . Dyscalculia can be thought of as dyslexia with maths. As you will hear throughout this podcast there are many similarities with dyslexia. Marni explains the difficulties dyscalculics can face and how her and her business partner Rebecca have develop...

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, we talk to Stuart Marsden product manager at Claro Software . After finishing his PHD, he worked for the NHS designing assistive equipment, this experience would become inviable when he later moved to Claro. Stuart who is not dyslexic is able to apply his epithetic design approach to provide technology that fulfils his mission to level the playing f...

In the episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt talks to Delwyn McKenzie from Accent Music School in West Melton, New Zealand. She comes from a musical family being the youngest of five and both her parents play instruments. They taught her how to play a variety of interments from a very young age. Struggling with sight-reading she excelled in the practical playing and along with her husband...

"When your dyslexic and you got to keep the flow, it was so tiring. Physically I was exhausted, because I has stay on the focus, I had work so hard to try and read the sentence." The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show welcomes on Alison Edgar MBE, twice voted one of UK's top 10 business advisers and author of two best selling books. She has come along way form leaving school and taking a job...

""When I came to the UK at 14, I went around with my grandma visiting peoples houses. There's always a picture of someone in there cap and gown. "" Having struggled through school and her early working life, Keisha Swaby wanted to full fill her dream of getting a degree. It was during her degree, when she was getting some of her work prof read she discovered she is dyslexi...

"Dyslexia is not a visual condition, but your much more likely to have visual problems." Bhavin Shah is a Behavioural Optometrist who specialises in understanding the visual problems faced by dyslexics. Although dyslexia isn't a visual condition, dyslexics often have difficulties with visual stress,  visual tracking, words moving over the page etc..  In this episode he goes into det...

"On my first driving lesson and I was turning a corner, BANG a cyclist hits me. My instructor you need to be aware that the car pillar is a blind spot. That has always been with me" Jock Boyle left school with no qualifications and label as slow. Having spent most of his adult life as a lorry driver his brain worked away in the background, if there was a problem Jock would think up a sol...