I think neuro-diverse profiles are still very much misunderstood. People seem to think that dyslexia means you can’t read, dyscalculia means you cannot count and dyspraxia is you can’t… keep your balance? But having a neurodiverse profile is far more than that. As a child I was covered in bruises, and now I have […]
This is Kirsty’s story and is very typical account from the students we support and service we provide at Diverse Learners. 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” – […]
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. We wish to extend our congratulations to Dr Rachael Major […]
This blog lists 3 of our favourite things. These resources are also the ones we recommended on almost a daily basis to healthcare students and Health Care Practitioners we support. We love them so much that they are also included in our “Some Simple Solutions” inclusive practice workshop for mentors and Trusts and our dyslexia […]
Michelle is a specialist study skills tutor and mentor at Diverse Learners and where we send our student nurses who need support doing drug calculations. She is also retired midwife and founder of UniSkills where this blog was first posted. Her first blog about managing mental health – We Really Do Know How You Feel – can be […]
Dear student nurse, A little letter of advice and encouragement along with the real story of nursing education. Heartfelt, if slightly tongue in cheek wisdom, from a Newly Qualified Nurse (NQN) who has been there, done that, and got the nice blue uniform… 1. There is no place for pride in the nursing course […]
These 5 top tips are posted in response to a blog by Teresa Chinn – @AgencyNurse and David Foord @DGFoord listing the virtues and dispelling some myths about using Twitter as a health care professional posted on NHSemployers site. WHY I LOVE TWITTER I love Twitter and learn so much from it for all the different areas of my […]