Mike Juggins

DYSLEXIA - Focus on Ability

The above video, Dyslexia, Changing Perceptions is based on an Article I ROTE for the British Dyslexia Association Handbook 2009 for this years BDA Handbook. The BDA have streamed this film also, so thank you to them! BDA WEB SITE

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 (see image at bottom of page) 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 and Web Site that is so very overdue (we prefer pictures over words. So please let us inform each other). 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 exists in society. I, like many other dyslexics, could do so much more if only we were to be included at policy level. Small changes in education, prison 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 2010

Dyslexia Focus on Ability. Oil on canvas 1.50 m x 1.20m.

I gave this as a Gift to Adult Dyslexia Access, Liverpool after the government departments I had offered it to did not want it...

I made this ideogram around 2000/01 and it just about sums it up! The Dyslexia Institute (Dyslexia Action) used it as a front cover of one of their publications and it has been used internationaly by many others who also want to see positive changes in education for dyslexic thinkers.