For five years, The Studying With Dyslexia Blog has been providing information and inspiration to the supporters of dyslexic learners. Read on to find out how you can help me to widen the impact by pressing that new orange button that says ‘Become a patron.’

When I started out on this journey of providing information and inspiration to the supporters of dyslexic learners, I really didn’t believe that the journey would continue into it’s fifth year. As a parent of daughters who have dyslexia as part of their neurodiverse profiles and subsequently discovering more about my own neurodiverse profile, The Studying With Dyslexia Blog has very much been a labour of love with the aim that every blog article informs and inspires at point of reading so that the readers gain new insights as they support their dyslexic learners. I have learnt so much myself through researching and writing articles as well as reading guest articles from experts within ‘Dyslexia World’.

It is time for a change…

It is estimated that 10% of the UK population has some kind of dyslexic profile according to the BDA but these figures are based on those that have had a diagnosis. So roughly 6.6 million people in the UK have had a test. There are millions, I am sure who have not been tested and have been able to live their lives unknowingly dealing with challenges that come from dyslexic thinking but that comes at an emotional cost, that is often overlooked and is avoidable.

Over this past year, readers have read articles on The Studying With Dyslexia Blog about 40,000 times in total and this tells me that I am reaching a small fraction of the supporters of dyslexic learners. These supporters will be teachers, specialist teachers, parents and other dyslexia professionals.

I want to reach more, I want to have a greater positive impact on dyslexia awareness and intervention, I want to signpost more readers to valuable resources that empower them to support their dyslexic learners but this is going to need funding and at the moment I don’t have that funding.

So far, I have been able to manage some of the costs of the Studying With Dyslexia Blog through a small amount of sponsorship of articles from commercial organisations and I will continue to do so, but I want to limit the level of sponsorship as that inevitably affects the writing of the articles as readers are exposed to advertisement content.

My costs for running the blog are as follows:

• Site hosting on SquareSpace,

• My time researching and writing articles,

• Managing the social media distribution of articles.

• Graphic design costs,

• Maintenance of my own IT equipment to support the generation of articles.

What I need extra funding for:

• Facebook and Google advertising so as to reach more supporters of dyslexic learners.

• Equipment to develop engaging video content.

• To increase my time in researching, developing and writing content for the blog and to employ help in boosting the production of articles.

• Travel costs in researching content that informs and inspires.

Only read on if you believe that my work is making a difference…

If my articles have helped you as you have helped a dyslexic learner and if you come back to the blog for more information or inspiration, then I am so thrilled. How would you like to help have that same impact with more supporters of dyslexic learners?

I have set up a way for supporters of the blog to work more closely with me to develop content that is even more informing and inspiring and this is through the Patreon platform.

Patreon helps ‘content creators’ like myself to increase funding for their work by utilising crowdfunding from their supporters. This platform will allow me to extend my work as well as make it more sustainable. It will enable me to spend more time on my mission to inform and inspire.

If you want to help me reach more people, then you can help practically with a minimum £5 (plus vat) donation per month to my work. In return for your kind support, I will get you access to new blog articles before they are posted on the blog so that you have time to comment on them and help me to shape them further before publishing them on the blog. You will in effect become an active part of my creative process but your contribution will make my articles even more informing and inspirational because you will be actively telling me about your needs as you support a dyslexic learner be they your child or a child that you teach or support professionally in other ways.

On my Patreon site, I have three levels of support available, two of which are specifically blog related whilst the third provides coaching support to parents of dyslexic kids too.

Please click the ‘Become a patron’ button below to find out more and if you can support me in this way then you will be making a huge difference to the numbers of people that I support through my work.

If this is not for you, then, don’t worry I am still going to produce articles and you will still have access to them via the Studying With Dyslexia Blog, but it you feel strongly about the development of my work then I so want you to join with me in this way.

Thanks for reading this article and for your support of The Studying With Dyslexia Blog.

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