Navigating Dyslexia: Effective Coping Strategies for Adult Success

Since dyslexia is not curable, dyslexic children grow up to be "fantastic creative" dyslexic adults. Although if the right learning support was not given during school age, some dyslexic adults might still struggle with work life.

I hope struggling dyslexic adults find these coping strategies helpful💖;

• Utilise applications like Grammarly and google doc to help edit your work.
• Use the notepad app on your phone to jot down spontaneous ideas; a journal can also come in handy.
• Always have a notebook and different colours of pen with you, especially during meetings, conferences or training (taking photos or videos of presentations can also come in handy).
• Have a ready to go audio dictionary on your phone, tablet and laptop.
• Use text-to-speech applications like speechify, Elsa, text reader, etc.
• READ, READ, READ a lot 🤝; reading improves your vocabulary. Practice mentally analysing what you have read.
• When reading, use different colours of highlighter to mark out important points (use the same colour for facts that go together).
• Meditate especially after reading or when planning for a task. Meditating helps you create a mental representation of the bigger picture.
• Develop the habit of writing regularly; it could be an essay, article or personal journal.
• Rehearse and repeat your presentation over and over (no cramming).
• Regularly practise the things you struggled with as a child (mental arithmetic, map reading, spontaneous direction indication, analogue clock reading, etc.).
• When listening to instructions, repeat them loud or in a whisper. If it’s a long instruction, jot down.
• Finally, do you; everyone has a coping strategy, find yours and create MAGIC.💪

**If you are still struggling with spelling, learn the sounds of the alphabet (this can be learnt online), practice blending sounds to form words and make conscious effort to blend correctly when writing or reading.