Words Fail Me: A podcast about thriving with dyslexia Dyslexia Foundation

In this episode, Jude chats to Steve O’Brien, the CEO of The Dyslexia Foundation to address FAQ’s that Dyslexic people have when they reach out to the charity. The Dyslexia Foundation helps a wide range of people, including those that are struggling at work, struggling to find work, and those who are having problems at home. If you think that dyslexia is becoming an obstacle to your life, have a listen to this episode and found out about the wide range of support and services available to you. Simply reaching out to a charity like The Dyslexia Foundation could open up opportunities and possibilities in work, education, and personal growth!

Here are the helpful tools, resources and apps that are mentioned in the episode -

www.specialneedsjungle.com

www.grammarly.com

www.voicedream.com

reciteme.com

www.clarosoftware.com

www.scanningpens.co.uk


This podcast was funded by the National Lottery Community fund and EPIC Projects or Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation

EPIC is a USA-based, non-profit organization. EPIC creates bonds among caring people devoted to solving global challenges of poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, human rights, and making peace. Go to their website epicprojects.org

Head to www.epicprojects.org to learn about the valuable work they do in South America supporting community education, human rights, promoting peace and ecological farming.

www.dyslexiafoundation.co.uk

Today we have a very special guest - Omari McQueen.

Omari is a 13 year old vegan chef and founder of dipalicious and mcqueens takeaway. Omari started cooking when his mum was poorly and he wanted to make her nutritious and healthy meals to help her recovery.

You will have seen him on the BBC, YouTube and TikTok - he’s a huge star. The boy is going places and it was a huge pleasure to speak to him. He’s been busy recently sharing his journey with dyslexia and he’ll be off to New York and Jamaica in the coming year to cook. He’s a very intelligent, very articulate young man and this conversation is a lot of fun.


This podcast was funded by the National Lottery Community fund and EPIC Projects or Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation

EPIC is a USA-based, non-profit organization. EPIC creates bonds among caring people devoted to solving global challenges of poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, human rights, and making peace. Go to their website epicprojects.org

Head to www.epicprojects.org to learn about the valuable work they do in South America supporting community education, human rights, promoting peace and ecological farming.

www.dyslexiafoundation.co.uk

Peggy Stern, is an Academy Award-winning film Producer/Director who has been working for more than 30 years in the film industry. She is Founder, and CEO, of Dyslexiaville, Inc. and has run Gladeyes Films, a transmedia production company since 1985. Her dyslexia led her to filmmaking and animation at a young age. In March 2006 Stern won the Oscar for Best Animated Short the brilliant ‘The Moon and the son’ staring John Torturro.

Stern has produced for PBS, HBO and Teachers College at Columbia University, The National PTA, and National YWCA among others. In her role as Dyslexiaville's founder, Stern engages with children, parents & teachers and speaks at conferences across the United States.

She received her BA from Harvard University and her senior thesis film ‘STEPHANIE’, was turned into a PBS documentary Special and broadcast nationally.


This podcast was funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and EPIC Projects - Ecuumenical Project for International Cooperation

EPIC is a USA-based, non-profit organization. EPIC creates bonds among caring people devoted to solving global challenges of poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, human rights, and making peace. epicprojects.org

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation - https://milestonefilms.com/products/the-moon-and-the-son

Super DVille - https://superdville.com/

Our guest today is the Scouse-Yemeni poet and performance artist, Amina Atiq. She’s a talented, imaginative, and eloquent poet, creative practitioner & award-winning community activist. She was an ABBC Words First Finalist in 2019 & alumni of the young associate & anti-racism group Curious Minds. Amina deftly straddles the communities she considers herself a proud member of – as a scouser and the pride she has in her city of Liverpool, her faith and her connection to Yemen and the Yemeni diaspora in the North of England.


This podcast was funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and EPIC Projects or, Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation

EPIC is a USA-based, non-profit organization. EPIC creates bonds among caring people devoted to solving global challenges of poverty, food insecurity, environmental degredation, human rights, and making peace. Go to their website epicprojects.org

www.dyslexiafoundation.co.uk

Jean-Jacques is a strategic health facilitator. He’s a fully qualified personal trainer, a sports massage therapist, a swimming coach who’s worked with paralympic athletes and a director and co-owner of the Sports Therapy hub in Liverpool. He’s worked for Liverpool City Council as their health and wellbeing lead practitioner and exercise specialist since 2020. Jean did’t receive support at school for his dyslexia, and it wasn’t until he studied a foundation course after his GCSE’s that he received any kind of help. After a couple of higher education attempts, he entered the fitness world, settling in Liverpool City Council as a fitness instructor and embracing his abilities to communicate with people verbally and emotionally. He re-entered higher education in his early 40s with two children when he started his full time BA course, for which he earned a first class degree in Sports Development from John Moores University, Liverpool, in 2021. He’s currently studying for his MPhil.


This podcast was funded by the National Lottery Community fund and EPIC Projects or Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation

EPIC is a USA-based, non-profit organization. EPIC creates bonds among caring people devoted to solving global challenges of poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, human rights, and making peace. Go to their website epicprojects.org

Head to www.epicprojects.org to learn about the valuable work they do in South America supporting community education, human rights, promoting peace and ecological farming.

www.dyslexiafoundation.co.uk

Our guest this week is the athlete, make-up artist and BDA Dyslexia & Dementia Ambassador Adelle Tracey.

She has represented GB at different age levels for more than a decade and is the current 800m national champion.

And since the recording of this episode Adelle has now officially become a Jamaican athlete - many congratulations to her!

A torchbearer at the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony she was picked by Kelly Holmes to light the Olympic Cauldron.


This podcast was funded by the National Lottery Community fund and EPIC Projects or Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation

EPIC is a USA-based, non-profit organization. EPIC creates bonds among caring people devoted to solving global challenges of poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, human rights, and making peace. Go to their website epicprojects.org

Head to www.epicprojects.org to learn about the valuable work they do in South America supporting community education, human rights, promoting peace and ecological farming.