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Dyslexia excels in an adaptive environment
In this video, I showed you one of the advantages of a dyslexic thinker. I love sailing. Enjoy your summer!

There's something powerful about writing things down...
In this video, I showed you the pens and colours that I use to BulletMap. I absolutely love these.

Dyslexia and Artificial Intelligence. How dyslexic minds are positioned to make the most out of the Machine Learning revolution that’s happening. Our children are going to lose a lot of their jobs to googles AI. Routine jobs are going to be lost. What’s going to be needed is responsive thinkers. People who can problem solve creatively. That can’t be replaced by AI. Dyslexics are natural responsive thinkers. Routine thinking is hard for them. If they can focus their thinking. Organize their thoughts, then they can truly harness what’s coming just like Dyslexic Edison did with electricity or Dyslexic Steve Jobs with computers.

Looking at a few of this weeks maps from students. 18th July BulletMap Academy QnA

Dyslexia tutoring dilemma. What do you do between learning to read and getting specialist tuition in English or math? The jump is awkward for a reading tutor because there isn’t an intermediate training program for tutors to deliver dyslexia friendly study skills. What if there was? That’s what we are talking about tonight.
one of the biggest problems Dyslexics face is being able to organize their thoughts.
I’m really looking forward to speaking to tutors are people interest...ed in becoming tutors about this tonight in our focus group.
https://bulletmapacademy.com/webinar/
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Dyslexia and pain. Dyslexia and Eczema, and unexplained pain. I experienced extreme eczema as a child. Hospitalized. Everyone focused on it during my childhood. But I think it was the external effect of anxiety triggered by being unequipped to deal with dyslexia and people’s expectations at school.
I think often pain is a way to release anxiety. Often physical pain is preferable to anxiety. I think I scratched my skin to experience the relief. Not ‘pain relief’ but relief through pain!It was a release from anxiety. It’s more common that you realise. I suspect the body has a release valve that trigger pain in the body to release emotional pain.

How do you make reading useful for Dyslexics? For that matter, How do you make education useful for Dyslexics! I remember how useless school made me feel. Then as a parent sometimes you can stand on the sidelines watching them in the ‘field’ of education and feel useless again! Dyslexia reading programs have been such a lifesaver for parents who want to be useful and see some transformation. But there’s a huge gap next for dyslexia tutors. There’s a great deal of theory, but ...what about practical visual study skills. Like Graphic organizers, spider maps, mind maps or BulletMaps? How do you actually put practical skills into the hand of dyslexic kids before they decide “what’s the point? I’m going to stop trying”. Tutors often can feel powerless wondering “How do I make this hard fought for reading skill useful?” I’m not saying I’ve got some sort of magic solution. But when you see child after child’s dyslexic advantages unlock one by one because an adult has stopped long enough to help them learn to translate things into their visual language in a systematic, explicit and imaginative way, it makes you think. What if reading tutors did this with their students? Built on that relationship. Built on that skill. Then the dyslexic child could actually feel education is useful. It all has to happen before they are 12. Before they settle on an answer to “What’s the point?”
If your a dyslexia tutor or thinking about becoming some kind of dyslexia mentor or coach please join this live video conference focus group to discuss how delivering a visual study skills program like the BulletMap Academy might potentially fit into the next few years. Join us, it’s free here www.bulletmapacademy.com/webinar
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Is learning to read well enough for a dyslexic child to succeed in school? Sadly, no. They also need study skills to keep up. If you’re a tutor of dyslexic children, a homeschooler or are considering becoming a tutor then check this out. Once they can read what happens next?
I want to talk to you about how you could be involved in pioneering a coaching program that helps dyslexics thrive in school once they can read.
After developing our BulletMap Study system with parents I... think the next step is to develop a network of Coaches. If you are interested in exploring how BulletMap Academy could help you take your child or students to the next level as a certified coach then click the link in the description. We are exploring how it might work for first timers new to tutoring and to those who have established tutoring practices but are looking for follow on programs.
I’ll be getting you all on together so we can all have a face to face discussion about how it might work. Join us on Monday or Tuesday www.bulletmapacademy.com/webinar
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The first certificates and Medals posted off to Plymouth Uk, Washington USA and more. My personal mission is to find a way to train 1000 dyslexic children to an advanced level for exams by 2030 (Brown Belt) and 1,000,000 know how to brainstorm with a BulletMap by 2030 (White Belt). A long way to go but everything has a small beginning.

Do Medals help Dyslexia? The right kind can. I got a ‘gardening medal’ as a 10 year old. It didn’t impress my friends, or my parents but I can’t explain to you how much it meant to me. I was an unidentified dyslexic failing at at ‘life’ as a ten year old, but I was determinedly tending a little plot of plants at school in my spare time. It gave me a sense of satisfaction to see things grow because of me. The supervising science teacher ‘saw’ me, and understood the ‘results’ I was getting and to my surprise gave me a medal. There was no fanfare, no one clapped me from the stage. It wasn’t a sympathy ‘participation’ medal. Instead, she had seen me, and respected my unseen efforts and acknowledged it. that little physical acknowledgement made a difference to my self respect, for life. What defining moments of acknowledgement helped you?

These are the medals for BulletMap Academy. (Limited Edition versions for the 50 Founder Members). We are currently doing a Beta Course for the Academy in preparation for the launch in September. Three things we are refining are 1. Training videos, 2. Study Clubs and 3. Awards. The founder members are giving great feedback about what’s going well and what’s a challenge. The children are very excited about the medals and they have worked hard for their Yellow Belts during their summer holidays no less! Posting them today internationally from Edinburgh to USA and Auz as well as U.K.

The Medals have arrived! How do you think I should arrange them on the shelf?

"children... are entitled to a “free and appropriate public education.” But when your child has dyslexia, public education is not free. In our effort to keep our son in public school, my family spent more than $80,000."

Spiderman is dyslexic. Oh, the sheer poetry of that. Of course he is. Jumping around ‘joining the dots’. He probably even uses ‘spider diagrams’ 🙂
Btw. The latest film is pretty decent.