# Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Sarah Myhill and Patricia Covarrubia. Parts of the material were adapted from the earlier course DSE212_1 Understanding dyslexia.

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Introduction and guidance

Images

Course image: stellalevi/Getty Images

Week 1

Images

Figure 2: fstop123/Getty Images

Videos

Video 2: Intersectionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1islM0ytk Courtesy: Professor Peter Hopkins

Video 3: See dyslexia differently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11r7CFlK2sc Courtesy: British Dyslexia Association

Week 3

Images

Figure 1: The left/right brain mastaka/Getty Images

Figure 2: Examples of visual disturbances experienced by some people with dyslexia © unknown

Figure 3: Courtesy: Dionysios Kyropoulos www.kyropoulos.com

Figure 4: An example of a RAN task for pictures Courtesy: Patricia Covarrubia

Table

Table 1: Frith’s framework (Adapted from Frith, 1999, p. 193) Frith, U. (1999) ‘Paradoxes in the Definition of Dyslexia’, Dyslexia, 5(4), pp. 192–214.

Video

Video 1: A visual introduction to neurodiversity Courtesy: Dionysios Kyropoulos

Week 4

Images

Figure 1: AlexSava/Getty

Figure 2: Yaroslav Olieinikov/Getty Images (model used for illustration only)

Figure 3: Image Source/Getty Images (model used for illustration only)

Figure 4: Bohdana Tkachuk/Getty Images (model used for illustration only)

Activity 3 Notable individuals with dyslexia – Images:

Alexander Graham Bell: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg

Richard Branson: Richard Branson Addresses the Our Ocean Conference 2015 in Valparaíso U.S. Department of State from United States https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Branson_Addresses_the_Our_Ocean_Conference_2015_in_Valpara%C3%ADso_(21783214958)_(cropped).jpg

Thomas Edison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Edison2.jpg

Henry Ford: The Henry Ford Collections, Object ID: 64.167.833.P.2973 Author Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Ford_portrait_1915_original_(3x4_cropped).png

Whoopi Goldberg: Whoopi Goldberg speaks about her book, “Bits and Pieces,” with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden during a special presentation, May 10, 2024. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whoopi_Goldberg_in_2024_(cropped).jpg

Carol W. Greider: Carol Greider in 2021 by Christopher Michel https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carol_Greider_by_Chris_Michel_1s946948-11-23.jpg https://creativecommons.org/lice Pablo Picassonses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs at the WWDC 07 17 June in Flickr 2007 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

Keira Knightley: Allstar Picture Library Ltd/Alamy

Pablo Picasso: Pablo Picasso (1962) File:Pablo picasso 1.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Erna Solberg: EPP Congress 2025 | Valencia | Day 1 European People’s Party https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Georgia Steel: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgia_Steel_on_Cosmopolitan_UK.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.enCC BY 3.0

Videos

Video 2: Patricia Covarrubia (course author) interviewed as a recipient of Kindness & Leadership’s ‘50 Leading Lights’ listees in 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9_OZaSkKk https://www.kindnessrules.co.uk

Week 6

Images

Figure 3: from: Myhill, S. (2022) Be a Brilliant Dyslexic Student, page 71 Sage - a global academic publisher of educational resources

7.1 Time management images:

Yaroslav Olieinikov/Getty Images (model used for illustration only)

Bohdana Tkachuk/Getty Images (model for illustration only)

Image Source/Getty Images (model used for illustration only)

Week 7

Images

Figure 1: xavierarnau/Getty Images

Figure 2: DNY59/Getty Images

Figure 3: Delmaine Donson/Getty Images

Figure 4: part of an Open University Equal Opportunities form © The Open University

Week 8

Images

Figure 1: The Thinker: Musée Rodin, Paris September 2013 004.jpg - Wikimedia Commons Deed - Attribution 2.0 Generic - Creative Commons

Figure 2: Ardani Saputro/Getty Images

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