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The Successful Dyslexic
This innovative book looks at the keys for success in dyslexic adults, comparing both those who are successful and less successful, enabling parents and teachers to use these keys to best support young dyslexics. These keys look at home life, school, career choices, working relationships, coping strategies, traits, unique selling points, and what is considered success for somebody with dyslexia.
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The successful dyslexic : identify the keys to unlock your potential
This innovative book looks at the keys for success in dyslexic adults, comparing both those who are successful and less successful, enabling parents and teachers to use these keys to best support young dyslexics. These keys look at home life, school, career choices, working relationships, coping strategies, traits, unique selling points, and what is considered success for somebody with dyslexia.
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Dyslexia and Mental Health
This book presents research and case studies to demonstrate why and how people with dyslexia can adopt adverse coping strategies and defensive mechanisms to deal with the emotional impact of dyslexia, leading to self-harm, depression and even suicide. It then looks at how they can best be helped and supported by professionals who work with them.
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Dyslexics
This new and innovative book aims to investigate adult dyslexics and their long-term relationships, along with their journey through parenthood. The book begins by investigating adult dyslexics and their childhoods, looking at their emotional and behavioural coping strategies. These adults, with others from a website for adult dyslexics, look at the impact childhood trauma has on dating, then on marriage/long-term partners. A commissioned study interviewing long-term partners of dyslexics brings new perspective to understanding how dyslexia affects relationships and how they interact as parents. What seems clear from combining the many perspectives is that dyslexia has a distinctive effect on relationships, with communication being one of the greatest problems. Non-dyslexic partners seem to be attracted by the quirkiness that comes with dyslexia, and the dyslexic ability to think out of the box/being divergent thinkers. However the effects of dyslexia can also bring difficulties in reading social non-verbal clues, an inability to express oneself coherently, and the inabilities to converse with peers in general conversation. The research found that many dyslexic parents feel inhibited by school homework and interactions with school, creating an unbalanced weight on non-dyslexic partners to manage not only the home and finances, but all dealings with school. This extra burden can have a heavy impact on the survival of the relationship, and social exchange theory is investigated with dyslexics. Dyslexia and careers are also investigated, with post-traumatic growth theory used to explain why many dyslexics overcome extreme trauma in mainstream education, but still attain post-school at university and in business. This is an important theory that explains their resilience and motivation to succeed. The book ends with a comprehensive hints and tips
section for dyslexics and their non-dyslexic partners to aid relationships, marriage and parenthood with both dyslexic and non-dyslexic children.
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Dyslexia, traumatic schooling and career success: investigating the motivations of why many individuals with developmental dyslexia are successful despite experiencing traumatic schooling
This thesis aims to: investigate the motivations of why many individuals with developmental dyslexia are successful despite experiencing traumatic schooling. It details seven studies that investigate the emotional coping amongst individuals with developmental dyslexia, investigating successful post-school careers as ‘post-traumatic growth’, an outcome from school-based trauma. The first two studies with school-aged dyslexics were quantitative and whilst helpful in understanding different coping strategies utilised, it was perceived to lack depth in understanding the emotional side of the dyslexia experience, and any long-term emotional ramifications from school-based trauma. A third study sought to understand the discrimination, stigma, and the dangers of self-disclosure of dyslexia, experienced by adult dyslexics. Two investigations of self-harm and possible post-traumatic stress disorder followed to better understand how adults with dyslexia emotional cope with learned helplessness experienced at school. Lastly, two studies investigating post-school workplace success, firstly to understand concepts of ‘success’ amongst adults with dyslexia, and secondly to understand how school-based trauma could be used positively. This thesis offers original contributions to literature through the use of standardised measures to measure emotional coping in school-aged dyslexic samples (especially depression); comparing the sources and manifestations of stress between school-aged dyslexics and their siblings; the types of self-harm used by dyslexic adults and where the source of their helplessness/depression begun; and how the concept of ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’ could be correlated to the reactions that many dyslexic adults experience now as parents returning to school. Original contributions were also made regarding adult dyslexics in regard to self-perceptions of success and understanding the role that school plays in motivating them to post-school success in the workplace, argued to be a form of ‘post-traumatic growth’. Lastly, the author proposes the use of ‘bi-abilities’ to better understand the experience of dyslexia, rejecting both the medical and social models of disability, as dyslexics reject a disability identity.
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School
The school experience is an important factor in the life of a child and adult dyslexic. The vast majority of the book’s sample commented on traumatic and humiliating times at school, at the hands of teachers, and to a lesser extent their peers as well. This chapter will look at: teachers, avoidance of tasks, and excelling in subjects as a child.
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Conclusion from the Successful Sample Project
This investigation looked at the childhood and adulthood experiences of 27 successful dyslexics, with an online survey of 135 self-proclaimed successful dyslexics.
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Interview with an Expert: Successful Dyslexics
Professor Emeritus of Entrepreneurship at City University London, Julie Logan is a researcher who has investigated dyslexia and entrepreneurship. Whilst not being dyslexic herself, two of her four children are, so she gives both academic and parents perspectives in this interview.
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Disability
There are three main models of disability in society, and these affect how the medical and educational professions perceive and treat those with dyslexia
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