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] Date Posted:16:42:07 04/02/08 Wed In reply to:
Nicky
's message, "Dyslexia questionnaire" on 09:09:05 01/23/08 Wed
I am female.
I have not directly told my employer I have dyslexia (and cognitive dyspraxia)
I was apprehensive as it was employment within a primary school and I feel disclosing my disability would have hindered my opportunity. I did tell them before I accepted employment that my spelling was bad and therefore would ask to use a spell checker when working with older children.
To spell checker my manager reacted positively and said it was a good example to show a child that sometimes we do not know the answer and that is o.k. we can because we can find the answer out.
I had not made my disability known so they could not make adjustments
I am yet to start this job, previously I found it had not affected my performance but I did take work home with me, as it takes me longer than an average person to complete for example a report.
I find following fast moving meetings/ conferences and conversations difficult, as sometimes I am still trying to process the information (particularly long/or unknown words) and suddenly I may be asked for a opinion. Also in general conversations I may misinterpret information when people don’t clearly say what they mean! Overall immediate reflection and note taking are strategies I have developed to deal with this.
(10) Possibly within self appraisals the employer asking whether there are any elements of the work which may be harder due to dyslexia and developing strategies to overcome this, rather than prodding along as if dyslexia is not there.
I am aware dyslexia is recognised as a disability, but feel within the selection process (interview) there is
Some employees (actually a majority of my past employees) simply do not understand enough about dyslexia, a lake of knowledge often means that their perceptions of a person with dyslexia automatically means that one’s intelligibility or capabilities are less than a average person. I feel within employment selection someone with equivalent skills, knowledge and experience whom do not have dyslexia would be consider as a safer option as an employee as exception would not need to be made. (Although most of us with dyslexia have had to developed our own strategies for coping anyway)
Date Posted:13:23:07 04/07/08 Mon
I dont tell employers I have dyslexia, I work in the medical field in a pathology lab and if I told them they would think I would make a lot of mistakes and I dont I, may not beable to get a job !1
