Hot Keys Books are hosting a very interesting panel at the Free Word event with the Booktrust as part of Dyslexic Awareness Week with author of Maggot Moon, Sally Gardner. It's being described as " A celebration of reading and dyslexia" and looks to be a perfect way to highlight the week and the issue. Quite honestly, I'm SO annoyed that I can't go because it's an event I'd love to attend but I felt like I should highlight it to all those that may be able to attend as it sounds amazing.
Thu 11 Oct 2012, 7:00pm
Free Word Centre, London
If you go to this event please let me know as I'd love to hear feedback on it
I wish I could go to this event, being dyslexic myself, I think it would have been fab to attend!
ReplyDeleteI remember when I first started working at the bookshop a customer had asked me for something and I couldn't understand what he had said so I asked him to spell it and he questioned this and made a comment, wanting to be polite I said I was dyslexic, not that I couldn't understand his muttering, he then asked why would I being working in a bookshop if I couldn't spell! In a polite tone I said, being dyslexic doesn't mean that I can't spell, it hasn't stopped me getting my GCSEs, A'levels, a Degree and the fact that I was half way through my Masters! (which I now have) And that shut him up!!
I find people's ignorance to dyslexia amazing!!
I have customers who now come to the shop asking for my recommends and wanting to know what I have read. I had a mother not long back who explained she had just found out her daughter was dyslexic and she seemed upset by this! It was sad to see but once I told her about myself I saw a change in her and it was nice to be able to talk to her about her daughter and tell her about books that were great for her daughter to read.
I still don't think enough is done around this subject in schools!