Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which primarily affects reading and writing skills. However, it does not only affect these skills. Dyslexia is actually about information processing. Dyslexic people may have difficulty processing and remembering information they see and hear, and it can also impact on other areas such as organisational skills.
How Can I Help...
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I offer a range of therapeutic approaches that can help both children and adults with this presentation:
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Post-diagnostic Intervention Therapy – learning about your neurodiverse diagnosis and learning helpful coping strategies.
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Neurodiversity Coaching.
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Parenting support and training sessions.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – Talking therapy which can be adapted for Neurodiverse individuals.
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Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) can be utilised to work on distress tolerance and emotional regulation.
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Animal therapy.
What are the symptoms of Dyslexia...
A person with dyslexia may:
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Read and write very slowly.
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Confuse the order of letters in words.
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Be confused by letters that look similar and write letters the wrong way round (such as "b" and "d").
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Have poor or inconsistent spelling.
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Understand information when told verbally, but have difficulty with information that's written down.
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Find it hard to carry out a sequence of directions.
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Struggle with planning and organisation.
But people with dyslexia often have good skills in other areas, such as creative thinking and problem solving.
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What Is Dyslexia
See Dyslexia Differently
Book Recommendations
The Gift Of Dyslexia: Why Some Of The Brightest People Can't Read & How They Can Learn
– 28th Jan, 2010
by Robert D. Davis (Author) & Eldon M. Braun (Author)
