Services on Offer to Employees With Dyslexia
Dynamic Dyslexia has years of experience working with employers and employees.
- Specialist In-depth Dyslexia Screening Assessment (in a comfortable informal context, standardized measures, report)
- Support and Assessment in Employment (standardized measures, shadowing, semi-structured interviews, strategy guidance and report)
- Personal Development Coaching (career, academic, interpersonal and intrapersonal guidance)
- Workshops for managers and workmates (a positive look at dyslexia in the workplace)
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Short Courses
- Having Fun with Memory Strategy (click here for free information on memory and memory strategies)
- Learning Styles and Study Skills for Work-based Learning.
- Understanding and Coping with Stress
- Create Yourself - Personal Development and Coaching
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Reasonable Adjustments and Understanding Attitudes can make a huge difference to the adult with dyslexia.
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Am I Dyslexic? (Click here for a list of signs.)
Services for Employers
Employers want to create the working conditions that ensure staff productivity and empowerment to make efficient use of time and resources.
Employees with dyslexia usually excellent workers, they have well practiced problem solving skills, often a very strong work ethic and always bring a great many talents to the workplace.
Sometimes, however employers can unintentionally create environments that, not only prevent the employees with dyslexia from reaching their full potential, but also create barriers to their effective use of time and resources.
Danger areas can be:
- Communication Systems
- Procedures
- Equipment
Employer Responsibility
The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) puts a duty on employers to make reasonable adjustments so that workers with dyslexia are not treated less favorably for reasons related to their disability.
To comply with this legislation it is vital that employers understand the common strengths and weaknesses associated with being dyslexic in a working environment. It is important to challenge stereotypes of dyslexia and recognize the opportunities for the employees with dyslexia to utilize their skills (click here to see a list of famous successful dyslexics).
Even slight adjustments can hugely empower an employee with dyslexia however a lack of adjustment can lead to a situation where work demands are beyond worker's resources and a downward spiral is set in motion.
Again there can be simple solutions that ensure compliance with disability legislation and 'Duty of Care'. Dynamic Dyslexia can help you identify situations where employees could be being treated less favorably and be able to clarify the most effective response.
Services to employers include:
- Disability Discrimination Act and Dyslexia (Workshop)
- Planning for Reasonable Adjustment (Facilitation of A Strategic Plan)
- Specialist Multi-Sensory Tuition (Literacy or Number Skills)
- Personal Development Coaching for Individuals with Dyslexia
- Managers Awareness (One To One Training Sessions)
- Workplace Awareness (Workshop)
- Workplace Manager Support (One To One Consultation Sessions)
- Specialist In-Depth Dyslexia Screening Assessment and Recommendations (One To One Assessment)
- Specialist Dyslexia Support and Assessment in the Workplace (Consultation Sessions)
- Mediation and Monitoring Approach to Adjustments (Consultation, Audit and Mediation Sessions)
- All employer services are tailored to suit employer needs.