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The Manchester College is partnering with The Dyslexia Institute UK and the Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit on a ground-breaking project called ‘Dyslexia Friendly Education’. Their goal is to raise awareness of the positive ways that excellent dyslexia support can progress educational attainment, build self-confidence, and even go some way as to reducing inequalities, social exclusion, and potentially incidences of referral to the justice system.
Their ambition is to trailblaze a dyslexia-friendly education system that’s adopted consistently across the Greater Manchester area, in colleges as well as in primary and secondary schools. It focuses on the ways that dyslexia can have an impact on motivational and behavioural progress when students aren’t being supported properly, and tackle the misconceptions that people have when it comes to having dyslexia in education.
It’s a holistic process too - the pilot stage is taking place at The Manchester College, using a group of 16-18 students, but is also recording findings from a group of adult learners who are just returning to education.
Andrew Hulme, their Director of SEND, outlined that it also wasn’t just about Manchester- it was about being able to replicate systems like the Dyslexia Friendly Education project on an even bigger scale. Speaking to About Manchester, he said “We want to create a blueprint for Greater Manchester which will demonstrate our ability to lead such initiatives at a national level.”
