In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Dr. Helen Ross who is a Special Educational Needs specialist and Dyslexia expert. She has founded Helen's Place where she delivers support for businesses, schools and families through research projects, professional development, and one-on-one tutoring. Alongside this she is a trustee for the British Dyslexia Association and Wilshire Dyslexia Association. She has also published and been featured in peer-reviewed papers and guest publications.  After staring her working life and an engineer but very quickly released that it was not the profession for her, she then transitioned into working in schools being a teacher and part of SENCO. Around all this she managed to find time to studying a PHD and publishing papers. Helen has overcome some of the prejudices about dyslexia, depression, and anxiety to achieve what she has, new help and assess other people for dyslexia, a truly inspiring story. ·        Helens Place·        Helens TwitterFor more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Philip Burgin who is ClaroRead Product Specialist at Claro Software. He has had a varied life and career, starting as a brick later before heading back into the education. There are some fun stories about the early days of home computing and how the DSA were providing the new technology to people that need it. Phil really takes his time to get to know the individuals that he is training and coke up with various methods for them to get the most out of there equipment and education. If you would like to understand how Claro develop their software, please listen to episode 10 with their Product Manager Stuart Marsden. Claro SoftwareText HelpFor more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of the dyslexia life hacks show Matt is talk to Rossie Stone, founder of Dekko Comics. They are educational comics the are aimed at 8 to 12 year olds, as you will hear in the podcast, Rossie inputs his Beano inspired style and humour lead stories that makes the comics and engaging read.Rossie was struggling with his school work during his early years and into his Scottish Highers, until one day with nothing to lose he used it love for art, illustration, and comic books, he put the whole subject down into a comic strip and to his surprise and delight got an A for that subject.During the podcast Matt and Rossie chart his struggles at school, through to setting up Dekko and how he makes the comics not only educational but engaging too.For more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show is part 2 of a 2-part series with NoticeAbility. In part 1 Matt spoke to Bodhi Bragonier who is a teenager and the inspiration behind NoticeAbility, and currently serves as there International Youth Ambassador. Now in Part 2 Matt talks to Dean Bragonier the Founder & Executive Dyslexic, they talk about his younger life in the american school system and the differences they may or may not be from Bodhi’s experience. Dean saw something in Bodhi when he came up with his idea of pocket change as a 6 year old and this sparked an idea in Dean’s head, hear how he took this idea to MIT and other educational institutions and uses entrepreneurship among other skill to empower dyslexics. We cover what it is like to living in a house hold of full of dyslexics, it can be a crazy place.For more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show is part 1 of a 2-part series with NoticeAbility. In part 1 Matt is talking to Bodhi Bragonier who is a teenager and the inspiration behind NoticeAbility, he currently serves as there International Youth Ambassador.  Hear how he came up with a business idea at 7 years old that with the help of his Dad Dean created a business plan, this help grow his self-esteem and Dean took this idea to start the company more on that in the next episode with Dean.Matt and Bodhi talk about him being embarrassed in the class and how the lesions from his dyslexic mum and dad help he get through this. They found that finding his strengths helped him through the harder times at school. He now is going round the world with NoticeAbility speaking about and promoting the advantages of being dyslexic. We also talk about the what its like to be home schooled while travelling and does it help him as a dyslexic.Stay tuned for part 2 where we talk to Dean Bragonier.For more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show Matt is talking to Maggie Souter and Sally Ashcroft who run Handy Spelling, a company which produces ingenious stationery to help children with dyslexia. There products include, pencils and rulers which help you remember tricky spellings and write the date. Tattoos and stickers to help you remember left/ right and b/d reversals. Bookmarks to explain homophones/ verbs/ adjectives/ nouns/ adverbs.In this podcast we talk about how as mothers’ mothers of dyslexic boys, in Maggie’s 3 dyslexic children, and have seen first-hand how self-esteem can be affected by difficulties with writing and spelling, this led them to develop Handy Spelling so other child could have some support right there in their pencil case. We cover both there backgrounds and how they found the school system when their children were going through it and how that feed into the creation of heady spelling. We talk at length about the process and thinking behind it and how kids can use it and then transition away from using handy spelling as the age. For more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is a talking to Kirsty Heap who specialises in coaching dyslexic leaders. In this podcast we talk about Kirsty’s time as school where she had supportive parents that got her the help she needed. Thought to the beginning of her working life where she came to a point in her career where she realised, she needs a master’s degree to progress further. She had to balance having young children and a job with her studies. Kirsty now has set up her own coaching using the lessons she had learned from her time working in HR. She focuses on bring the best out of dyslexic people in leadership rolls, we talk at length about her methods.Kirsty's website  For more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Phillip Ruddock who is the founder of Our Dyslexic Connection. His day job is working as an english teacher at Middlesbrough College where he applies his lessons learned during his own dyslexic experiences to help people who have failed their GSCE's to get the grades they need. In this podcast Phill talks openly and deeply about the experiences some of these teenagers are having and the negative thoughts they have in regards to their dyslexia and self-image and his own experiences with shame and low self-esteem. Some of these stories hit close to home for Matt and you will hear his voice wobble at points during the conversation. Matt and Phill also talk also about self-image and shame that can be brought on from being a dyslexic person. Phill found out he was dyslexic at the same time as embracing his sexuality and he draws parallels between both experiences. There is a lot of talk about personal growth and self-perception in this podcast. Our Dyslexic ConnectionTwitterYouTubeFor more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Kate Gladstone who has developed a program and published a book to help people with reading and writing in cursive.In this podcast you will hear Kates story of struggling to read at school and the horrible thing she was told when she voiced her struggles, including being told to copy lettering of a board and then being told she did it wrong as she a copied the type font perfectly.   This leads her research the history and origins of modern American cursive writing, using this knowledge she gained a full understanding and used the knowledge to be able to teach anyone from any age how to read and write in cursive. There is much more to her story listen in and find out more.Selected LinksKate’s –WebsiteBook - Read Cursive FastArticle with samples of handwriting - Handwriting and the Autism Spectrum For more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.

In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking Jason Flinter. Since 1996 he has been working on building brands. Jason has self-diagnosed with dyslexia; you will hear during this podcast how he finds out more and more about what dyslexia and how is life and career has been positively shaped by it and we look into how things were different for his much younger sister.Despite only having good grades in his art subjects, Jason got accepted onto university and studied graphic design. Having graduated in the 80s he found computers interesting and was ahead of the curve with learning how to do design on a computer. We talk at length of how important branding years and it is not what people initially think. Jason has a great love for wordplay that he uses when creating Brand taglines and he is also a keen songwriter and really enjoys the puzzles of how to make words into play with each other.Also find out how being an African drum teacher helped Jason grows career.The FlintJason's Book - From Bland To Brand: Ten essential blocks to build For more hacks tip and tricks for dyslexia and full show notes please visit  Dyslexia Life Hacks.