The Choice is Yours

I was inerested to listen to your interview with Kennie Logan on the You and Yours programme relating to Dyslexia. It was accurate, well balanced and very welcome. I was moved by his account of his life with the diability and admiring of the steps he has taken as an adult to acknowledge and deal with his difficulties.

It only takes a little imagination to see the stress of spending ten years in schools, trying to decode symbols which make no sence and respond with the same. Like trying to read and write a foreign language you have you have never mastered.
How very sad that in ignorance of the condition, one listener was in denial of the existance of dyslexia. My grandson (who is severely dyslexic) was able to identify with the lack of help in schools (he is about to leave) and the constant struggle to make the best of his education. I would like to think that programmes such as yours will be able to educate the unaware in order that those people struggling in a complex world based on the written word will experience greater empathy.

MiraculouMaggiemay

I caught the last few minutes of this article on dyslexia and was fascinated, but not worried that I'd missed most of it because I could LISTEN AGAIN, but no. How sad that a programme that could have been inspirational to my husband (he learnt to read and write properly at the age of 40)is not available to him. Like many with dyslexia he has got on with his life and has his own company, so doesn't get to listen to the radio during the day. Can anyone tell me what the name of the course the Kenny Logan took part in that helped him so much?
Thanks

What Disability Means to Me is a feature we are running everyday on You and Yours this week, with more to come next week too.

All the reports will be available as podcasts (use the link below to find them)
www.bbc.co.uk/radio/...

And you can also listen again, and read the transcripts on the You and Yours website.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4...

Hope that helps!

Hi there, just to let you know that I have just done "listen again" on Kenny Logan so it should be there for you now. Kenny did the Dore programme which my daughter has just started doing, she is 8. He is very inspirational and one of may celebrities who is dyslexic, Richard Branson included. The Dore programme helps to untangle the pathways of the brain and they actually call it cerebellum developmental delay instead of dyslexia. We are already noticing improvements and if you are interested just type it into google and you'll find it. You are never too old to start, even though it looks as if your husband has developed his own coping strategies for doing more than well enough in life. Good luck

How curious that a treatment regime glowingly praised and generously reimbursed by customers even when its benefits are in some quarters a matter of great scepticism, would in the end fail to stay in profit. You don't see reflexologists begging on the street, do you? (Or maybe you do when they adapt their talents to... never mind.)

Did we know that Kenny Logan was getting paid by the company for this? And is he, in fact, with things as they now are?