Be Smart: Dyslexia edition

Supporting

Dyslexia Awareness Week

& Dyslexia Month

Everyone may have heard of Dyslexia but do you really know about them?

There are a lot of phrases and stereotypes and presumptions such as short-term memory, reading challenges and many more.

But it’s not about perception and you can’t lump everyone under the same brush

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Valuing Dyslexia

Valuing Hidden Differences

CHALLENGES THE ATTITUDES

A Dyslexic person faces many opticals and challenges due to the difficulties they live with. However, this is not an excuse to use ignorance to demonise and to see the worst out of them

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Diverse Senses

Diverse keywords 

LOOK BEYOND

Rather than make a judgement of a person’s difficulties, look at the positive qualities and passions. This includes strengths and their positive attributes.

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Dyslexia Advantage

A dyslexic person can achieve many things, look no closer than the variety of achievers and role models with Dyslexia 

Strengths positive attributes

Positive achievers and role models

For example, there are many positive Dyslexic achievers including business entrepreneurs, award-winning sports athletes and leaders of a nation for example.

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Dyslexia Achievers

However, regardless of a person’s difficulties we also need to value a Dyslexic person as a citizen if their voices of expressions and insight need to be listened to and be taken seriously and not use their difficulties to silence or oppress them.

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Positive Value 

Have a balance between a Dyslexic person’s difficulties and their positive qualities.

However, we must stop using closed Minds to make negative allegations and judgments

So everyone needs to be smart on how we approach a judge a Dyslexic person 

Written by Keith McKenzie, Project Director Plus Value Awareness

Find out more by visiting the project director’s page 

USEFUL LINKS

Official event website by British Dyslexia Association

Plus Value Awareness information for supporting Dyslexia Awareness Week and Dyslexia Month

The Plus Value Awareness mini features Higher Aspirations

SOCIAL MEDIA

Follow Plus Value Awareness on Society for updates, Developments and extracts from the website 

WEBSITE

Visit the Plus Value Awareness website to discover the variety of projects, campaigns, features & developments

Keith McKenzie for Plus Value Awareness