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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...geography in school, excelling in maths and science, and used to love music. He said ‘...I was, on the whole, considerably discouraged by my school experience... I had the greatest difficulty in making myself understood.’ It seems that he was also a visual thinker. Dyslexia is still stigmatised and the misconception around dyslexia can still evoke words such as...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Working in teams Badge icon
Money & Business

Working in teams

...geography and age did so 87% of the time (Wong, 2024). Lorenzo and Reeves (2018) examined diversity in management positions in more than 1,700 companies across eight countries, and found a statistically significant correlation between diversity and innovation outcomes – the most diverse having innovation revenues that were 19 percentage points higher. Activity 3...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...geography of institutions - Between the end of the nineteenth century and 1970, numerous institutions were created to house thousands of people with learning disabilities. Institutions and hospitals (or 'long-stay' hospitals) refer to the same thing. They were places where lots of people with learning disabilities were forced to live together. Most have now been...