Some of you may remember the Studying With Dyslexia Blog covering a news article about Jack Harley Walsh.
Jack has severe dyslexia and dyscalculia and this was so disruptive for him that he applied for 30 different mainstream schools to support his education and non of them were equipped to help him learn and so refused entry.
In an article by the Bracknell News, Jack describes himself as ‘an educational train wreck’ citing that no school wanted to teach him, “I just couldn’t learn in the way that most schools taught.”
At age 11, this experience was so very difficult for Jack who said “Even I didn’t want to be me!”.
 21st April 2018, Stoke-on-Trent |
This is a really good example of how having special educational needs not only affects learning but also motivation and self-esteem.
Eventually, Jack found himself a place at the specialist dyslexia school, St David’s in Llandudno, Wales and in 2015 Jack received the Young Person award from Anthea Turner at the British Dyslexia Association.
Check out his speech below:
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