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October is Dyslexic Awareness Month. Its a month that has special significance to me as my son* is dyslexic. I see on a daily basis the unique way that he navigates the world and its something I've come to admire and cherish (and not just because I'm his mum!). Having trained teachers and good support at school is so critical to his growth and success and its no different at work. Unfortunately though, when it comes to work, just one in five dyslexics feel that their workplace truly understands their strengths, despite data from LinkedIn highlighting their proficiency in skills such as communication, creativity and leadership. Many businesses unintentionally place obstacles in the way of dyslexics during the hiring process and within the work environment. That's why I'm delighted that we've teamed up with Made By Dyslexia and Virgin Groups to offer a free LinkedIn Learning course, 'Empowering Dyslexic Thinking at Work' launching this October. Led by Kate Griggs the Founder and CEO of @MadeByDyslexia, this course aims to educate professionals and businesses on how to celebrate and support Dyslexic Thinking in the workplace. I'm signing up, and I invite you to do the same so we can all recognise and foster the remarkable strength in thinking differently. *Post written and photo posted with my son's approval

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👩🏼💻Aimee Eggs - MBA

Principal Customer Success Manager @ LinkedIn -Connecting insights to commercial ROI | Peloton Addict | MBA Graduate | I'm #MadeByDyslexia – expect creative thinking & creative spelling

8mo

My sons is dyslexic (so are my husband and I) and we talk all the time about superpowers. We have a long way to go for our school system to realise the huge potential that those with dyslexia bring and to stop focusing on what test results our kids get. I really hope people take part in the course to celebrate all the super hero’s out there navigating the world that just wasn’t made for them but they’re smashing anyway

Will Scott

Future of work & Flexible working champion 🔮 | Sales Leader @ Zendesk | I build and grow revenue teams at scale ups 🚀 | Personal brand builder 🎙️

8mo

Love you highlighting this Ngaire. Such an important thing to raise awareness of. As someone who's also dyslexic, I can hand on heart say I don't think it's ever something that's been openly spoken about in work. That's not to say previous employers haven't deemed it important, I think it's just often misinterpreted. Coming out of university was when it's particularly hard as a lot of assessments don't allow it to be taken into consideration.

It will never get easy but you have to keep smiling. I’m 57 years old and I have the multiple invisible handicaps. One of them is a dyslexic for some reason I can read with less trouble a computer monitor, my iPhone, and my tablet and my laptop. all the things of going down to southern Illinois in Carbondale, with prodigy achieve to this day, I still have very difficult reading a piece of paper, especially when it comes down to bills my family thought it was wise to have conservator on me to take care of and make sure and manage my bills. It’s not easy because I get a monthly allowance.

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Kate Griggs

LinkedIn Top Voice | #DyslexicThinking Expert & Speaker TEDx | Founder & CEO at Made By Dyslexia | Best Selling Author | 🎧Podcast Host "Lessons In Dyslexic Thinking" | LinkedIn Learning Instructor

8mo

What a beautiful pic! I cannot wait to launch our training to help empower #DyslexicThinking in every workplace 💡

David Collard

Building teams that deliver value

8mo

Very excited to take this course Ngaire. I've recently had a big learning experience with one of my team sharing their dyslexia diagnosis details with me. I was struck by the breadth of how dyslexia impacts their day to day (far beyond what i'd been aware of) and how easily I can make a few small adjustments to make their working life easier - awareness is everything.

Dr. Burton A. Clark, EFO

American Fire Culture: Researcher, Author, Speaker, Instructor

8mo

Mom’s play a key role in helping their dyslexic children. The workplace can benefit from dyslexic thinking. A case study. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUUoK2Ajsys

Greg Snapper

Senior Director @ LinkedIn | Communications Strategy, Reputation Management

8mo

Beautiful post and pic Ngaire Moyes. I will bet with certainty (and a beverage next time we see each other) your smart son made mom use the asterisk *️⃣

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Lovely to see you pop up in my feed Ngaire. Hope you are doing well. And to this post there are so many variants to dyslexia- my daughter has a processing dyslexia and needs specific accurate facts not vagaries - she’s all about the data 💪🏼

Rose Lord

Bringing visions and values to life

8mo

Being dyslexic myself, finding ways to navigate definitely requires some creativity. A very important mission and one very close to my heart.

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