Dyslexia in the workplace

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  1. The following presentation is intended for managers of businesses to
  2. raise awareness of dyslexia and how it can impact performance
  3. in the workplace symptoms, challenges and strengths will be discussed
  4. as well as some strategies managers in H.
  5. R. Teams can implement to ensure employees with dyslexia feel
  6. supported and are given the tools of success.
  7. Furthermore, strategies for preventing dyslexia discrimination will also be discussed.
  8. Dyslexia is a learning disorder that affects your ability to
  9. read spell, write and speak.
  10. 15 of Americans will suffer from Dyslexia and it typically
  11. occurs on a spectrum ranging from mild to severe.
  12. The dyslexia manifests differently in everyone.
  13. The following symptoms could occur difficulty to coding words, difficulty
  14. matching letters with sounds slower reading, trouble spelling, mixing up
  15. words and difficulty with recognition.
  16. Yeah. Dyslexia often affects a person's memory ability to process,
  17. store and recall information and their organizational skills or awareness
  18. of time when it comes to workplace performance, symptoms of
  19. dyslexia can present themselves as difficulty reading and writing typical
  20. forms of information and communication such as reading and writing
  21. emails, websites and reports difficulty learning and are calling factual
  22. information, which is especially true if the information is in
  23. text form only meeting deadlines and time management.
  24. Because information processing can slow down project completion and following
  25. complex instructions.
  26. When instructions are too detailed, they can be overwhelming in
  27. a challenge to follow.
  28. A common misconception is that people with dyslexia see words
  29. differently. Dyslexia is not a problem with vision.
  30. It is a brain based problem that inhibits the ability
  31. to decode written language.
  32. It has been found that individuals is dyslexia process words
  33. differently. They rely on brokers areas in the left frontal
  34. lobe of the cerebral.
  35. Um Whereas those with dyslexics without dyslexia rely on more
  36. areas towards the back of the brain.
  37. Mhm. The image on the bottom of the screen illustrates
  38. the differences between the brain processes the areas that those
  39. with dyslexia used to process words is less efficient and
  40. slow down the process.
  41. There are six different types of dyslexia.
  42. Phonological dyslexia includes the difficulty breaking speech into individual sounds
  43. surface Dyslexia causes individuals to take longer to process language
  44. when they move it beyond the decoding stage.
  45. Visual dyslexia is when individuals have trouble reading and remembering
  46. what has been seen on a page.
  47. This mostly affects visual processing.
  48. Primary dyslexia is when dyslexia is a result of a
  49. genetically inherited condition.
  50. Secondary dyslexia is when babies experience brain development issue in
  51. the womb prior to birth.
  52. The neurological impairment can occasionally result in dyslexia and trauma
  53. or acquired dyslexia is when an individual has a brain
  54. injury from trauma or a disease, they can develop difficulties
  55. with language processing.
  56. Mhm. Though we do know that dyslexia dyslexics use different
  57. portions of their brain to read there and there are
  58. different types of dyslexia.
  59. We haven't quite figured out why it occurs.
  60. There are several different theories that attempt to explain the
  61. causes of dyslexia.
  62. Two of the most popular include the phonological theory and
  63. the rapid auditory processing theory.
  64. Yeah it's the phonological theory suggests that dyslexia affects a
  65. person's ability to represent the smallest units of sound and
  66. speech. Known as phonemes.
  67. For example the word hat has three phonemes H.
  68. A. T.
  69. Three individual sounds of speech And the word read also
  70. has three.
  71. All right.
  72. E. A.
  73. And D.
  74. Dyslexic individuals have a less precise representation of phonemes in
  75. their memory.
  76. Evidence suggests that poor short term verbal memory is a
  77. common cognitive difficulty for dyslexic people.
  78. We use this type of memory to blend sounds in
  79. words together when reading them for the first time.
  80. This theory holds especially true with languages that use more
  81. irregular letters to sound combinations.
  82. For example, the english language limitations of this theory is
  83. it's inability to explain the occurrence of sensory and motor
  84. disorders that many people with dyslexia experience.
  85. The rapid auditory processing theory concludes that the deficit lies
  86. in the perception of short or varying sounds.
  87. Failure to correctly represent short sounds and fast transitions cause
  88. further difficulties, in particular, when such acoustic events are the
  89. queues for funny Mick contrasts, for example, deciphering bah instead
  90. of da.
  91. This view purports that auditory deficit causes the phonological deficit
  92. and therefore causes the difficulty learning to read.
  93. Support for this theory is from evidence suggesting that dyslexics
  94. show poor performance on auditory tasks, including frequency discrimination in
  95. temporal order judgment.
  96. Yeah, americans with disabilities act is a civil rights law
  97. that prohibits the disability discrimination by schools, employers and anyone
  98. who offer goods and services to the public.
  99. The following section will suggest strategies for ensuring company compliance
  100. and ensure ensuring that employees with dyslexia feel supported.
  101. Mhm. Mhm.
  102. There are several strengths those with dyslexia have a tendency
  103. to possess.
  104. These include seeing the bigger picture, viewing things on a
  105. more holistic level, improved pattern recognition, improved spatial knowledge.
  106. They are highly creative and they have improved problem solving
  107. these strengths, making individuals dyslexia great web designers, interior designers,
  108. artists and entrepreneurs.
  109. Yeah. Yeah.
  110. In order for these individuals with dyslexia to feel better
  111. supported by their manager and HR team, these strategies can
  112. be implemented creating create an open and engaging culture where
  113. employees feel safe and welcome, provide verbal and written instructions.
  114. Both that are clear and concise, highlight key points and
  115. emails by using bold font and bullet points.
  116. News clear and easy font that is easy to read.
  117. Use charts, diagrams and other visual aids to help convey
  118. important information and use extended deadlines to ensure individuals will
  119. have enough time to complete their work in order to
  120. support neuro diversity within companies.
  121. It is integral to prevent discrimination and hiring practices implement
  122. the following strategies to ensure fairness, create dyslexia friendly job
  123. advertisements by using audio or video versions of job advertisements
  124. in addition to written ones, This attracts a range of
  125. skills and is both inclusive and creative.
  126. Write your advertisements using plain language, void of jargon and
  127. complex sentences.
  128. Use shorter paragraphs and bullet points during interviews.
  129. Keep questions brief, use visual aids for clarity of difficult
  130. tasks and keep presentation short and concise using strategic pauses
  131. to allow interviewees to absorb the information and ask questions.