Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand
“No Such Thing as Normal” is a ten-part podcast series that focuses on neurodiversity in New Zealand. It’s hosted by Sonia Gray, who has personal experience with ADHD and has a neurodivergent daughter.
In the second episode, Guy Pope-Mayell, Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand (DFNZ) Chair of Trustees, discusses how some of the issues in navigating the education system.
Listen to it here.
What we’d love for Christmas is for the Ministry of Education to consider how this is going to affect dyslexic students … not everyone has the means to be assessed and will therefore not be assigned a reader/writer…. Guy Pope-Mayell speaks to Charlotte Cook at RNZ:
Right now, far too many of New Zealand’s neurodiverse young people are missing out in our education system and their voices are going unheard. In fact, approximately 10-20% of all young people in New Zealand would be defined as neurodiverse!
The New Zealand Centre for Gifted Education are bringing together 10-15 ‘Young Neurodiversity Champions’ to tell their stories and lobby for change in this coming election year 2023.
As an organisation supporting neurodiverse young people, we’re supporting our friends at NZCGE and backing the rangatahi across Aotearoa to lead from the front and help drive the change they want to see in the education system.
Applications to join as a ‘Young Neurodiversity Champion’ are now open and will run until 2pm on Friday 9 January, 2023. Share this with people you know who could be interested and help us make young people’s voices heard!
Learn more about the ‘Young Neurodiversity Champions’ programme and apply here: https://www.nzcge.nz/young-champions/
Have you seen Jenny Tebbutt’s fantastic, Webinar Series: “Growing Great Children with Learning Differences”
Details below…
https://www.adhd.org.nz/growing-great-children-with-learning-difficulties-and-differences.html