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I am trying very hard to get my head around a few things recently. Like the idea of having a more business like image and the idea of including my qualifications in the footer of any letters and e-mails I send. The business thing is wierd because I have always been a bit of a maverick in any organisation I have worked in and also maybe a bit of an outsider. I guess I have never been totaly comfortable with systems imposed on me from employers. Example, when I first began working in my last job I… Continue

Things have been going great with my company Dyslexia Pathways. I have been given a request for some dyslexia awareness training for a woman's refuge in Dundee for staff and clients. Wahayyyyyyy some money coming in lol. I have also completed an application for some lottery funding with a Fife training company. Ok its only a 3 month project but it will be cool and I will actually get paid if it is accepted. I may also be doing some training for another IT company on assistive technology and dy… Continue

Things are going well with my new dyslexia services company, "Dyslexia Pathways". I have go my first client for a dyslexia assessment, I am in negotiation with the Job Centre for a contract to work with people signing on who are or may be dyslexic. Myself and my company were mentioned in several newspaper articles here in Scotland. Lottery funding is being applied for on my behalf by two interested parties with the same vision as I. Last week I got some more of my gear moved up from London to m… Continue

Hi hi hi all. Not been around to much of late. Just been sooooo busy and had family stuff to deal with. Went on o great training course in London a couple of weeks back. "Dyslexia in the Workplace". One of the best training course I have ever been on. Met some great new contacts there as well. I have completed my business plan and now in the early stages of marketing. I am getting interviewed on Monday for an article for a magazine here in Fife. I will believe that when it happens. Something… Continue

I received a letter in the post today from a charitable trust I had applied for a grant from. The grant was to pay for a new multi media laptop and some dyslexia teaching software. The total cost of which was £2200. I saw the letter on the floor by the door and just couldn't even stoop down to pick it up. I left it on the floor whilst I went and did something else. I put it off again and again. I was just worried how I would take the news if it were not good. I openeed the letter slowly and peek… Continue