Dyslexia Awareness

/ Dyslexia Awareness. / By Nat Hawley, MSc (Applied Neuroscience) and Divergent Thinking For Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Africa Dyslexia Organisation has kindly handed today’s blog over to Divergent Thinking. I’m really grateful for that. It also feels like a natural continuation of the work we’ve already done together through the ADO community webinar and the […]

Your Child Isn’t Lazy ,They Need Support! It’s a scene that plays out in homes and classrooms Africa: a child struggles with schoolwork, shows little interest in reading or writing, and seems distracted or disengaged. Frustrated parents and teachers might assume the worst: “They’re just being lazy.” But the reality is often far from laziness.

Education, the bedrock of a nation’s growth and progress, plays a critical role in shaping the socio-economic and technological landscape of a country. This holds especially true for a developing nation like Ghana, with its enormous reservoir of young, dynamic minds eager to learn and contribute. Our education system forms the cornerstone of our collective

Globally, the discourse on learning disorders is gaining traction. The issues of learning disorders have become increasingly worrying because it has become widespread amongst children and adults alike in our society but little is still known about learning difficulties in Africa. Researchers have reported that more than a tenth of the global population have learning

In Africa, a greater percentage of the populace believe that dyslexia is not real and it is just a coined term used to refer to individuals, specifically children who are lazy in academics. We also have majority of people being ignorant of what dyslexia itself is all about. Despite only a fairly recent move to eminence

Did you ever sit in a class with that mate who couldn’t write their own name? Did you ever teach a child whose performance was so abysmal you wondered if they even understood a thing you taught? Do you have a child who is a low performer in academic work? Are you wondering what is

Thank you for stopping by to read this, what I am sharing with you is very personal and dear to my heart. It took me a long time but when I was 30, I discovered something that changed my life forever. I will share my story and my discovery here with you today and hopefully,