Dyslexia & Job Suitability Assessments
Dyslexia (and Specific Learning Difficulties) affects approximately one in ten. Organisations will employee people who are dyslexic or have dyslexic tendencies.
Dyslexia is not an illness and does not require 'treatment.' Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that can be easily identified and easily helped. Awareness is everything. A simple diagnostic assessment can change someone's life and allow them to not only be aware of their strengths and weaknesses but also allow them to implement very simple and effective aids and coping strategies.
Dyslexia can affect:
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Organisational Skills
- Working memory
- Speed of information processing
- Time Keeping
- The ability to write clear and coherent letters and reports
- Sense of direction
- Co-ordination
- Confidence and self-esteem
On the positive side, people with dyslexia tend to excel at verbal communication, lateral thinking and problem solving skills and can be very innovative.
WSM's Dyslexia Specialist offers two solutions to helping your employees:
- Diagnostic assessment - to identify dyslexia as they key issue and highlight key areas of strengths and weakness for training and development
- Work-based assessment - where a person has already been diagnosed (possibly at school or some years previous) to identify additional strategies or technology that would aid the person to conduct their job more efficiently
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