New strategy will help Scotland become more dyslexia friendly

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Dyslexia Scotland has launched a new five-year strategy setting out how it aims to create a more dyslexia-friendly Scotland.

Following an extensive community profiling exercise, the charity has identified six key priorities it says must be addressed to achieve its vision.

The strategy focuses on tackling long-standing injustices, including delays and costs associated with identifying dyslexia, inequalities in educational attainment, inconsistent or ineffective support and persistent public misconceptions.

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Kindergarten cognitive deficits linked to dyslexia risk

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Key Takeaways

  • Cognitive-linguistic deficits in kindergarten—especially in phonological awareness and letter knowledge—strongly predict early-emerging dyslexia by first grade.
  • Specific kindergarten deficits, particularly in letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming, and morphological awareness, remain significant risk factors for late-emerging dyslexia in fourth grade.

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‘Are You Lazy Or Stupid?’: The Reality Of Navigating The Workplace With Dyslexia

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We’re often told that dyslexia is a ‘gift’ or a ‘superpower,’ but for many adults, the day-to-day reality feels more like carrying a backpack full of bricks.

After making the same mistake twice in relatively quick succession at my former workplace, a manager said to me “are you lazy, or are you stupid?”. The mistake itself was small. I had sent a quote in pounds instead of dollars. But it happened twice, and what my manager saw as carelessness, was actually my dyslexia.

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Can You Change an 88-Year-Old Brain? | Psychology Today

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Can you change an 88-year-old brain? This question came up when Mr. JT Johnson, 88, started using an AI program to correct his dyslexia. Dyslexia is a common reading difficulty that affects 1 in 5 people (Yale Center for Dyslexia, 2022). It is classified as a learning disability in schools.

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