World Dyslexia Awareness Day is a global initiative that seeks to shed light on dyslexia, a learning difficulty that affects millions of individuals worldwide. This day serves as a reminder of the importance of understanding and supporting those with dyslexia. Dyslexia affects reading, writing, and spelling abilities but does not diminish one’s intelligence or potential.

Dyslexia is also about information processing. Dyslexic people may have difficulty processing and remembering information they see and hear, which can affect learning and the acquisition of literacy skills. Dyslexia can also impact on other areas such as organisational skills.

It is important to remember that there are positives to thinking differently. Many dyslexic people show strengths in areas such as reasoning and in visual and creative fields.

Tuesday the 8th of October 2024 was World Dyslexia Day. To help spread awareness we had an assembly for our children from 3rd to 6th class to discuss what dyslexia is. We watched a YouTube video of adults describing what it’s like to have dyslexia. Rory O’ Connor, past pupil of St. Declan’s came to talk to the children at assembly. Rory has dyslexia and spoke to the children about the difficulties that he had to over come in primary and secondary school.