Is Dyslexia A DisAbility?
Labour MP Graham Stringer recently released his opinion that dyslexia is a myth invented by education chiefs to cover up poor teaching methods. He was, understandably, heavily criticised by dyslexia charities. When I first heard the news, I planned to write a rant about how he was talking rubbish. But then I discovered that my friends at mainstream blog Liberal Conspiracy had taken the post straight out of my mind. Unity’s excellent essay sparked a debate with another mainstream blogger, Letters From A Tory. So I decided to cross-post their whole debate here at this blog. This page has been created so I could list the links to these cross-posts all in one place, because this debate has kept the ‘Same’ in ‘Same Difference.’
Unity- DisAbility
Letters From A Tory’s Reply- Myth
John Rack at CIF- DisAbility I have not cross-posted this as I don’t want to break any CIF rules but have linked it instead.
Unity’s Reply to LFAT: DisAbility
Rod Duncan: DisAbility
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are you able to get money benefits for being dyslexic? please write back its a important questions!
I don’t know about benefits. I do know that if you’re at university, you can get something called Disabled Student’s Allowance for dyslexia.
Dyslexia is a physical and a social disability.
Typically we do have permanent reading and writting difficulties and other processing dificulties. That’s the physical disability.
Typically society is controlled by literate graduates and they impose things like a lteracy based curriculum rather than allowing an audio/aural based curriculum. That’s the social disability.
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In the uk dyslexia is a disability by law, you cant get benefit to keep yourself out of work. Because dyslexia does not stop you from working.
You can get dyslexia allowance for support equipment in education around 3000 in senior school and 4000 pounds at university.
regards
Steven Milner
http://www.ihavedyslexia.co.uk
Social network for dyslexia
i have dyslexia and i lost my job in august this year and since then i can not get a job as i can not read to well and spell and i have problems with maths so wen i go to a job interwiew and have to fill in forms i just freez most of the time my girlfriend has to come with me so she can help me so that means draging my 2y old son out with us i can not read books as i read one lineand then start reading the next line under that one ect ect
Gary, many men have that problem. A man that I dated for three years did absolutely nothing for himself as far as taking the time to read, fill out, comprehend, And as far as I know he didn’t have dyslexia. So don’t let that be a major concern. But still do your part in correcting or making the issue bearable.
Dyslexia can be disabling, especially in particular work environments. Nevertheless, if I can work in a quiet, non-distracting environment I can work far better than the average person and can excel if I play to my strengths.
I believe it falls under the disability discrimination act. An employer, school, college, uni should make reasonable adjustments in the UK.
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