The Dyslexia Association of Ireland has made a submission as part of the public consultation to review the Reasonable Accommodations Fund of the Department of Social Protection. Under the Reasonable Accommodation Fund, the department can help employers and employees with a disability (including dyslexia) to...
Episode 1 – Keith: Keith, a PhD student, spoke about his personal experience with dyslexia and how it informed his doctoral research into the experience of dyslexia students...
This Seachtain na Gaeilge #SnaG22 we want to share some information on learning Irish. While learning languages can be a challenge for learners with dyslexia, the impact is variable. What we know from the research is that to give learners the best opportunity to learn a...
The Dyslexia Association of Ireland has made a submission to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) on the draft new Primary Curriculum Framework. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the consultation period was extended and now closes today February 28th, 2022. The...
The Dyslexia Association of Ireland is very disappointed in the proposals by the Minister and Department of Education recommending against a hybrid option for this year’s Leaving Certificate exams. The Junior and Leaving Cert. students of 2022 have had two full years of disrupted learning,...
As part of our work on the TuDOrs Erasmus+ project we want to hear about the experiences of foreign language teachers in relation to teaching foreign languages to students (of all ages) with dyslexia or other learning difficulties. For example, what are the challenges, do...
The Open Doors Initiative (https://www.opendoorsinitiative.ie/) and Employers for Change (https://www.employersforchange.ie/) are carrying out research with IT Sligo on best practices in recruitment and employment to develop an Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit for employers. As part of the research, they want to interview a variety of people including some...
Request for Tenders to develop and set up an IT administrative & communications system to enable the national roll-out of the online Readable Project Overview The Readable Project is an online initiative based on the idea of a book club that was designed to awaken the pleasure...
We have all seen the lists of famous people with dyslexia, but what about the rest of them - quietly successful, getting on with their lives? I wanted to find out if there was something successful dyslexic adults have in common. Imagine how we could...
This week the Dyslexia Association of Ireland made an important submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science as part of the Committee’s examination of Leaving Certificate Reform. Our submission focused on three broad areas, namely (i)...
