Failure Isn’t the End—It’s the Question: What’s Next?
I’ve been a fan of The West Wing since it first aired in the late ’90s and early 2000s. This seven-season drama...
Failure Isn’t the End—It’s the Question: What’s Next?
I’ve been a fan of The West Wing since it first aired in the late ’90s and early 2000s. This seven-season drama follows life inside the White House under President Bartlet, a Democrat. It’s a fascinating, easy-to-watch show with an incredible storyline, filled with...
Me and My Dyslexia
Today is the day I start a positive change. From time to time, you need to reset and move forward. For anyone that is neurodiverse, burnout is always close, but you also have to keep things progressing. Today is that day for me. Personalised blogging is something I...
Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Dyslexia: Enhancing Content Creation.
As an individual with severe dyslexia, my journey through the world of content creation has been a captivating one. The desire to share ideas, insights, and information has always been there within me. Despite the challenges posed by dyslexia, my portfolio career...
Cracking the Code of Productivity: A Dyslexic’s Perspective on Time
Ever wondered about time? Being dyslexic, it’s like time has its own secret language. Mornings flash by while afternoons drag on forever. For me, 12-hour clocks are my lifeline; those 24-hour ones? Forget it. And don’t even get me started on reading analog clocks,...
AI’s New Chapter: Empowering Dyslexia
As Severely dyslexic adult, I’ve found that integrating artificial intelligence into my writing process has been an empowering journey. Embracing AI tools like ChatGPT has transformed my experience by granting me the ability to enhance my thoughts and ideas. Despite...
Planing positive or stressful
When you're dyslexic and neurodiverse, the approach to planning can evoke a mix of emotions. As we approach mid-August, a time when many are unwinding or gearing up for the upcoming academic year, the significance of planning becomes evident. For me, an entrepreneur...
Empowering Expression: Navigating Dyslexia with Assistive Tech and AI
Revisiting the topic of writing a blog as someone with dyslexia, the journey might initially seem overwhelming. However, with the progress made in assistive technology and artificial intelligence, the idea of creating a blog can be truly exciting. Over the past...
Breaking through barriers – mental health
When we look at life really and truthfully, we haven't talked about mental health probably for many years. I know it for me as a 38-year-old adult with severe dyslexia during my life my mental health has gone up and down. I remember very clearly when I was a young...
Breaking Down Barriers
Thinking about life as a dyslexic and when I did breakthrough barriers. I was diagnosed with being dyslexic at age 9. I remember this very clearly, being told by my mum and actually feeling very happy and relieved and I think this was the first point then I broke...
Breaking Through Barriers
Creating content for blog websites is not always easy specially for me as severely dyslexic adult. Being in the right frame of mind, having the time and actually making a start can always be difficult. Dyslexia Awareness Week and Dyslexia Awareness month is upon us...
An amazing week – Dyslexia Awareness Week 2021
What an amazing week. Dyslexia week went really well we saw so much awareness about dyslexia so many amazing stories about different people and so many supportive things going on. As you know I ran a number of webinars over the week relating to my work with Microsoft....
Dyslexia Awareness Week 2021
Arran Dyslexia Awareness Week (DAW) 1 Dyslexia Awareness Week is upon us here in the UK and in the wider world it’s Dyslexia Month. For me I've been involved in many Dyslexia Awareness Weeks by doing talks in my school days about my dyslexia, having displays in...
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Dyslexia Awareness Week 2020
Dyslexia Awareness Week 2020 is here. When we look at 2020 it is going to be one of them years that is certainly memorable. There are positives and negatives, but we always have to move forward. Dyslexia Awareness Week in the UK traditionally is taking place the first...
Dyslexia Strengths
Living with dyslexia can be difficult it can also be tough and stressful. Motivation and perseverance is not often lacking but you may find yourself doing a small amount of...
Microsoft – Accessibility
Accessibility should be available in all walks of life whether you are in education, the workplace or at home so offering accessibility to those that need it is very important. Here at Microsoft we have a mission to empower every person in every organisation, there is...
A day in life with dyslexia: Writing
When I think of dyslexia I think of the strengths and my ability to think outside the box and to have creativity. Creativity is not always about being able to draw or sculpture or even paint a masterpiece creativity is all-rounders. As a dyslexic adult writing can be...
Using Claro Read
When we think of the word dyslexia we often think of difficulties, differences or disability. This is true as dyslexia does cause a difference in the brain that means that we have difficulties with specific tasks. A high proportion of people who are dyslexic will have...
Succeeding
It’s not nice to say that you’re never going to succeed, back in my school days this is exactly what I was told. At nine years old I was told that I was dyslexic, so what did it mean to me? I was different how did that make me feel? At first, I was excited I wanted...
Reading, Spelling and Technology Typing?
For as long as I can remember I’ve been around typing programs which has been most of my life. When I say typing programs I mean touch typing and learning to use the keyboard correctly. We often take typing for granted as the majority of us use the keyboard every...
2016 Now 2017
2016 has been and gone and it was an amazing year with its normal activities and challenges. I have a number of goals for 2017. Before I go into them we must remember one thing, when you are dyslexic your body is always under stress and we should think of ways of...
Understanding Mindview
Memory or working memory can be a big problem for dyslexic people. Organising your thoughts onto paper can be very difficult. Put yourself in this situation, a piece of paper in front of you and you must write a story or a report where do you start. Your mind is...
Nessy
There are many products and services out there that are designed to aid children with the difficulties they face with dyslexia. There are many teachers out there that can support students with dyslexia. There are also several products available to support and aid...
Understanding Claro Read
Many people say that dyslexia is just about reading but this is not true of course. Of course, a high percentage of dyslexic people will have difficulties with reading. I am an advocate for trying to teach children to read but we also must think about how we can...
Free webinars in November
Arrandyslexia.co.uk and the SEND Group work very closely together on running free webinars on different types of technology that can be used to support dyslexic people and November is no exception, I’m delighted to let you know that...