Dyslexia Birmingham

Growth mindset: 🌱 If there’s one thing that we all need, it’s a positive outlook and a growth mindset. Our children especially, would benefit from resilience, coping skills, and coping with big life changes.

Supporting kids of all ages with growth mindset tools such as a growth mindset sorting activity can help to put those tools into action.
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Using technology shouldn't be naughty. Why are we damaging the mental health of dyslexic learners, when there is a wealth of technology that can help us with the things we find difficult?

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Dyslexics are truly talented.

Dyslexics can do anything. Whatever your passion, you can probably find a dyslexic who excels in the field.

Know your strengths, get an assessment.
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Strengths not shame!
See the things we can do, rather than the things you think we can’t do.

Poor organisational skills are often seen in dyslexic learners. It isn't a can't, it is a need for explicit support.

Difficulty with keeping your space and belongings organized is one of the best examples of Executive Dysfunction in daily life.

It can also be one of the most frustrating when organization issues impact learning, social skills, home tasks, and daily functioning.

This image shows some common ways that organizational issues show up in the day to day.

Here are organizations strategies, activities, and printable tools: https://www.theottoolbox.com/organization-activities/

Embrace the Power of “What Went Right”
For many dyslexic learners, perfect spelling isn’t the starting point.
If every attempt ends in being told it’s wrong, confidence collapses.
Children stop trying. They stop believing. They start thinking they’re stupid failures — and they’re not.
It’s time to flip the script.
Instead of marking mistakes, we highlight success.
We tick the parts that are correct.
We build on what’s working, one small step at a time.
Because progress grows where confidence lives.
If a child writes sucsesfull, we celebrate the accurate sounds and patterns they used.
Then we choose one thing to improve.
Just one.
This is how dyslexic learners develop skills, independence, and pride —
not through perfection, but through recognising what they CAN do and growing from there.

Get the right support for your child to succeed. www.dyslexiabirmingham.com

Criticising a dyslexic for pointing at words with a finger and reading slowly, or pointing out the mistakes in their spelling is devastating to their mental health.

Find the parts of the spellings that went well. Praise the strategies they are successfully using to read.

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Dyslexics often struggle with working memory.

Working memory tools: https://www.theottoolbox.com/how-to-improve-working-memory/

I almost cried reading down the page, but my heart was warmed reading it from bottom to top.

READ THROUGH AND THEN READ IN REVERSE!
This poem is truly remarkable! ❤️❤️
Written in 2019 by a young unidentified 10-year old dyslexic
Make sure you read it in reverse!