Mike Juggins

DYSLEXIA - Focus on Ability

The above video, Dyslexia, Changing Perceptions is based on an Article I have just written for the British Dyslexia Association Handbook 2009. It is due out mid Nov.

I made the 4 min arty film (to the right) for the channel 4 web site in 2005. I had started my Visual Jazz paintings but felt that I needed to break off and make this film. It was supposed to be one last attempt to Change the Shape of the wHOLE before I “made it” as a painter.

Five years on and I would still jump at the chance of making the inclusive national awareness FILM that is soooooo very overdue (we prefer pictures over words. So please let us inform each other - enough paper shuffling).

I have spent TEN hard years on the issue now and I am proud of what I have achieved. I’ve done all I can to change things for the better and hopefully inspired many fellow dyslexics to believe in themselves.

However, a real lack of understanding of what it is to be dyslexic still excists in society. I could do so much more if only I were to be included at policy level. Small changes in education, prisons and employment policy would save the country billions and transform so many peoples lives.

I have the key… will anybody enable me to use it? Mike Juggins 2009