Typing Tae Kwon do
It’s frustrating how Dyslexia can affect your memory. In many areas my memory is almost photographic. For instance, there are many occasions where I’ve heard a song once. Years later, when hearing that song for the [...]
Freaky Friday Football
I came across this fascinating story a few weeks ago. For those of you that missed it on Facebook and Twitter here it is again. If you can bear with the 30sec that sometimes plays before [...]
The Text Take Over
While strictly not about Dyslexia, this video did get me thinking about the disadvantages we face, as Dyslexics in a text based world. As a child I don’t remember text based communication being such a big [...]
Cultural Dyslexia
As I have discussed in a previous blog (Learn Chinese to beat Dyslexia?) there are parts of the Chinese Language that may actually be more suited to Dyslexics than phonetic languages like English. Associating pictures with sounds [...]
Could Dyslexics have Descended from Eskimo Tribes?
When I decided to start The Codpast, one of my aims was for this to be a platform that would expose the world to the immense talents that resides within the Dyslexic community. I wanted to let [...]
Wordless Learning
One of the things that dyslexics are not meant to be good at is learning languages. But for some reason I seem to pick them up relatively easily. I don’t think I have a natural aptitude [...]
Take The Dyslexia Knowledge Challenge
The National Center for Learning Disabilities is one of America's biggest charities supporting dyslexia. They went out on to the streets of New York to see what the general public believe about dyslexia. I'm ashamed to [...]
Launching The Codpast
Dyslexics are some of the most creative thinkers in our society. Apple, Virgin and IKEA are just some examples of what a dyslexic state of mind can conceive. A lot of the time mainstream media concentrates [...]
How much have perceptions about dyslexia changed?
Now I’m probably in danger of giving away my age here, but let’s just say it’s been almost two decades since I last sat in a high school classroom. I was never diagnosed with dyslexia at [...]
Learn Chinese to beat Dyslexia?
It’s estimated that around 15% of English speakers are dyslexic but only 7% of Chinese speakers. Does this mean that most dyslexics would be better off upping sticks and moving east to cut our chances of [...]