Dyslexia Awareness Week 2019 aims to promote the strengths of the condition.
This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week and this year the British Dyslexia Association wants to focus on schools and businesses empowering people with dyslexia.
More than one in ten suffer from dyslexia, which not only makes tasks such as reading and writing challenging, but can also can cause difficulties with coordination.
Dyslexia also provides strengths such as understanding complex information, seeing the big picture and communicating with others, all of which are great skills for the workplace. Yet, too often, we are failing to empower dyslexics to do their best at work.
For Dyslexia Awareness Week 2019 the British Dyslexia Association is asking schools and businesses to put aside half an hour to explore how they can empower their employees with have dyslexia.
Helen Boden, CEO, British Dyslexia Association said: “empowering dyslexia isn’t just an issue of managing weaknesses and complying with the law, it is about coming together as an organisation at all levels, and exploring the value dyslexia is bringing now and how to maximise that in the future”
In Liverpool, the Liverpool Dyslexia Association offer advice for local people who find day to day tasks challenging due to their dyslexia.
The group hold monthly meetings at Liverpool Central Library which are free to attend and can help people find support they need.
The Liverpool Dyslexia Association helpline number is: 0151 207 1757
Dyslexia Foundation, based at the Albert Dock also offer a range of services, which include screenings, assessment, one-to-one tuition and needs assessments.
People who have dyslexia, or think they might, should contact the above organisations in order to gain support to help them in their everyday lives.
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