Dyslexia Stories 4

Discovering other people’s dyslexia stories through the written word This is the 4th in a series of 9 blog posts by an adult member of Dyslexia Scotland that explore dyslexia stories or journeys. In the previous blog post in this series, we looked at how we can discover other people’s dyslexia stories in person, and through video and audio. This blog post gives some ideas of where we can find dyslexia stories in the written word. Here are 7 places where you can find people’s dyslexia stories in text. You can use a text reader with all of them e.g. Ivona MiniReader, which is free. To install it, go to: https://www.adapteddigitalexams.org.uk/Using-Digital-Papers/Reading-with-Text-to-Speech/Ivona-MiniReader 1. ‘Dyslexia and Us’ book https://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/sites/default/files/page_content/book_order_form.pdf

‘Dyslexia and Us’ is a collection of over 100 accounts of dyslexia by a wide variety of people
It is produced by Dyslexia Scotland and Edinburgh City Libraries
The stories are short – at most a few pages

2. Dyslexia Scotland blog https://alifelessordinaryds.wordpress.com

E.g. ‘What will I do now? at https://alifelessordinaryds.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/what-will-i-do-now

3. Dyslexia Action’s ‘It’s Me’ https://www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/its-me

This page on the Dyslexia Action website shows dyslexia stories that people have submitted to it
Some of the stories have images
Click on the title of each story for the full story

4. Dyslexia Together’s ‘Other People’s Stories’ https://www.dyslexiatogether.org.uk/other-peoples-stories.html

Dyslexia Together is a self-advocacy website
The stories on this webpage are all exclusively text but they include links to websites and videos
There are 9 stories to date. 7 are by adults and 2 by young adults

5. Klaire de Lys: ‘My Dyslexia Story’ https://www.klairedelys.com/2013/07/19/my-dyslexia-story

Klaire de Lys’ dyslexia story in text (it is also available in video on the same webpage, below the text)
Many other people have added their stories to this webpage below the video (scroll down to the comments)

6. RASP guest blog https://r-a-s-p.co.uk/guest-blog

These posts are all dyslexia stories by writers and other creatives

7. Susan Barton dyslexia stories https://susanbartondyslexiastories.com

These are emails that a variety of people have sent to a US dyslexia specialist, Susan Barton
Susan has published them in order to help people grasp the impact of dyslexia across the life span
The emails all have an audio toolbar at the top but of the several I tried, only one actually played audio

In the 1^st 4 posts in this series of blog posts we have been exploring our 1^st 2 key points of the series:

What dyslexia stories are and how they can help people;

Other people’s dyslexia stories

Now what about your own dyslexia story? How do you feel about telling it? How do you think telling it might help you and others? In the rest of the blog posts in this series we are going to think about our 3^rd and final key point, namely your own dyslexia story. We will explore: