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The Karina Eide Young Writers Awards 2023

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Mar 22, 2023 | creativity, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Newsletter, Writing

Congratulations Karina Eide Young Writer Award Winners 2023! Read the creative entries here!

The Benefits of Creative Writing [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Feb 10, 2023 | creativity, dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Writing

It’s that time again – the Karina Eide Young Writers Awards are open for submission. Encourage a young person you know to submit a little story or poem. We’ll be giving away over $1000 in awards as well as some non-monetary awards. Submissions will be evaluated on storytelling, humor, and voice, and not spelling, grammar, […]

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Florence Welch + The Machine Singer-Songwriter [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Dec 31, 2022 | creativity, dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Music, Neurodiversity, Premium, Premium Content

“Being a creative person and getting older, and wiser, has been an awakening. The older I get, the more self-assured I feel and the more confident I feel in my work and in life.” — Florence Welch Florence Welch is an English singer-songwriter who writes and sings songs that are steeped in folklore and […]

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Nature Journaling with John Muir Laws

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Dec 18, 2022 | Being Dyslexic, creativity, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Neurodiversity, Newsletter, Social and Emotional, VIsual

"I notice, I wonder, it reminds me of" are powerful prompts that lead you to observe more deeply, ask better questions, and make interesting connections." — John (Jack) Muir Laws This is a great time to get outdoors and draw. Even if you're a backyard nature...

Dyslexic Advantages in Electrical Engineering [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Dec 18, 2022 | Being Dyslexic, Careers, creativity, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantages, Famous People with Dyslexia, Math, Neurodiversity, Premium, Premium Content, Science, Technology

A TALE OF TWO STORIES “At the beginning I can remember looking at blackboards or pages of text having no idea what other kids around me were seeing. For me the pages may have well as been blank for all I could glean from them. However I was lucky as when I started my secondary […]

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Co-founder Brett Kopf’s Journey to Success with Remind and Omella

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Dec 8, 2022 | Being Dyslexic, Careers, creativity, dyslexia, Entrepreneur, Famous People with Dyslexia, Gifted, Neurodiversity, Newsletter, Video

"...Can I just start off by making a blanket statement that I think dyslexia can be such a gift?" — Brett Kopf Brett Kopf is co-founder of Remind and Omella, two companies that grew out of his interest in solving problems that mission-driven organizations and...

Dyslexic Strengths in Times of Adversity

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Nov 6, 2022 | Being Dyslexic, Community, creativity, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Neurodiversity, Newsletter, Social and Emotional

"...dyslexics sometimes seem unusually well suited to deal with major changes -- to being able to see opportunities inside of adversity. They are known to be particularly good at rethinking situations in an original way. They are known to be able to see what others...

Building Spatial Talents [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Oct 23, 2022 | Being Dyslexic, creativity, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Dyslexic Advantages, Gifted, MIND strengths, Modifications, Neurodiversity, Premium, Premium Content, Strategies, Technology

“…Spatial reasoning has been key to numerous scientific advances, such as the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA and the epidemiological research using maps to discover the true source of cholera outbreaks. It is also essential to many 21st-century careers, particularly in science and engineering… But are we able to see and support these […]

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Dyslexic Super Learners [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Oct 23, 2022 | Being Dyslexic, creativity, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Gifted, Learning, Neurodiversity, Premium, Premium Content

“This isn’t how I think either; this is how I have trained myself to think, because it works.” – Kevin Horsley, World Memory Champion and author of Unlimited Memory It seems surprisingly common that dyslexics are found among the world’s super-learners. It might be that all share a passion for understanding their memory strengths after […]

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Actor Stephen Graham [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Oct 2, 2022 | Being Dyslexic, creativity, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Famous People with Dyslexia, Neurodiversity, Premium, Premium Content, Video

Actor Stephen Graham has been described as one of the most talented actors the United Kingdom has ever seen. Yet, he almost didn’t get a chance at his breakthrough role in Snatch when the director Guy Ritchie, asked whether he had come to read for the part. Stephen had just come along to support his […]

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Comforts of the Abyss: New Book from Philip Schultz

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Jul 17, 2022 | Advocacy, Being Dyslexic, Books, creativity, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Neurodiversity, Newsletter, Writing

"Schultz, founder and director of The Writers Studio, chronicles the challenges he faced as a poet, fiction writer, and teacher that led him to see the aesthetic and psychological value of creating a writing persona. He has long confronted a pervasive inner critic...

Taming the Monkey Mind [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Jun 4, 2022 | Attention, Being Dyslexic, Brain, creativity, dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content

The idea of having a “monkey mind”, jumping around from one thought to another, dates back centuries. It’s a term that can be applied to restless poorly controlled thought. We are all susceptible to “monkey mind” when our minds are excited, stressed, worried, or tired, but for some, the monkey mind is a frequent state […]

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