I think neurodiverse profiles are still very much misunderstood. People seem to think that dyslexia means you can’t read, dyscalculia means you can't count, and dyspraxia means you can’t… keep your balance? But having a neurodiverse profile is far more than that...

Kirsty is a 3rd year nursing student who came to us just 10 weeks ago for specialist study skills support, often referred to as “dyslexia / dyspraxia support” or accessing a “SpLD tutor” – Specific Learning Difficulties tutor.

Here at Diverse Learners, we do our best to raise awareness of dyslexia and dyspraxia every day. This blog ends a week of tweetchats, tweets, Facebook posts and videos to do our bit for Dyslexia Awareness week ending on Sunday, the 8th of Oct 2017.

Over the weekend, I (Rosie) Skyped Kerry Pace from Diverse Learners and her daughter, Phoebe, about our joint blog for Dyspraxia Awareness Week.

This guest blog is by Janice St John (@jstjohnmatthews), AHP CPD Lead, Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, and an MRI/CT Radiographer, who also happens to have dyslexia.

Michelle is a specialist study-skills tutor and mentor at Diverse Learners, where we send our student nurses who need support with drug calculations. She is also a retired midwife and founder of UniSkills, where this blog was first posted.

I am presenting at the British Dyslexia Association International Conference 2014 on Thursday, 26 March. I’m also presenting a poster at the Thursday evening session, which includes interactive elements that allow delegates to Skype with students who use Diverse Learners.