Association for Higher Education Access & Disability is celebrating the 25th year of existence . The conference:
‘Is Universal Design in Education any of my Business?’ will be taking place at Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin 12-13th March 2013
Contact:
email: ahead@ahead.ie
Tel: +353 1 7164396.
AchieveAbility advises Dragonfly productions for the Channel 5 documentary ‘ My Secret Past’ featuring Shane Lynch
Air time is Monday 7 January at 10pm on Channel 5
http://www.channel5.com/shows/my-secret-past/articles/contacts
Boyzone’s singer-songwriter Shane Lynch always stood out as different from the clean-cut image of the rest of the band. Now, he opens up about a personal secret that has caused him embarrassment and problems throughout his life and explains much about his character.
Shane struggled with reading and writing all the way through school. Although he developed a number of coping strategies to get through, he was eventually asked to leave as he was thought to be lazy and disruptive. He then worked for his father in his garage until he was plucked from obscurity to become a member of Boyzone. Since then, he has never looked back.
Now at the age of 35, Shane still struggles to read and write and finds his inability embarrassing, but having a young daughter has finally prompted him to do something about it. He was told a couple of years ago that he may have dyslexia, but it has never been officially diagnosed. He is given a proper assessment, but he worries about the outcome – what if he is not dyslexic after all?
Before taking the assessment, Shane returns to his old school in Dublin to explain how hard it was for him back then. He also speaks to family members to find out how much they really knew about his illiteracy.
Shane is keen to find out how today’s dyslexic youngsters are coping and visits schools that are proactively helping students to overcome their dyslexia. Among other sufferers, he meets a university student who is struggling to get through her finals and a young man behind bars who is convinced that his situation is due to his dyslexia never being spotted at school.
All this is leading up to his own dyslexia assessment.
How does Shane feel about taking it, and will the final result be the news that he has been waiting for? Whatever the outcome, Shane wants to show that people should never keep quiet or feel ashamed about not being able to read or write.
Since 2007 DYS(THE)LEXI has been on a mission to revolutionize how people see and understand dyslexia.
The festival is the first of its kind to challenge and celebrate the term ‘dyslexic’, proving that not only can we write, but that our dyslexia makes us better story practitioners! Festival Producer, Lennie Varvarides believes there is only one way to best explain the creative benefits of dyslexia–and that is to produce the work of dyslexic story makers. Welcome to DYSPLA!
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AchieveAbility is part of the Localgiving network
Please Find BELOW a LINK to The HEFC Funded New EMPLOYABILITY Disability Focus
Guide For 2012
http://www.tagdisability.org/tag/focus
This guidance produced by Martin Murphy and Tina Elliot funded by HEFCE
through Action on Access, will be of use to staff with responsibility for directly supporting student employability in post-16 education institutions. Careers services and disability or learning support services staff will benefit from using the guide.
Please could you pass this Guide or link on to colleagues
http://www.tagdisability.org/e-update
Thanks for all your Support
Martin
Project Co-Ordinator
TAGDISABILITY
ELCF give grant to AchieveAbility for working with the unemployed who might be Dyslexic
Funding has been granted to AchieveAbility by the East London Community Fund for work with Redbridge Schools
AchieveAbility supports the British Dyslexia Association call for people to sign their petition for a compulsory module on Dyslexia within intitial teacher training courses. The petition needs to reach 100,000 signatures for a debate to happen in the House of Commons.
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London 2012 Inspire Programme endorses the Inspiring Posters Project
AchieveAbility has achieved endorsement from the
Olympics for their creative concept to deliver a project in
Schools in East London. The project will encourage visual
learning and communication skills for young people who
might be Dyslexic. The Inspiring Posters Project will be
delivered in collaboration with the Arts Dyslexia Trust.