DYSLEXIA

 I can here you saying, we all know about Dyslexia.

 DO YOU?. DO YOU really know all there is to know about the Dyslexic.

Here are some facts.

Not all Dyslexics have the same degrees of disablement, here is an example of what some Dyslexics may go through.

1) Have you travelled the wrong way on a motorway even though, you have read a Sign post, not a few minutes before?

2) Telephone Numbers are the hardest, only at times remembering three digits out of a six digit number .

3) Maths, some Dyslexics find Division, tables, and subtraction almost impossible to do.

Car parking is a nightmare if you have to key in the Car plate numbers, that’s bad enough, but if you have a Car telephone dialling card system, this is an impossibility. No thought for the Dyslexic here.

4) Reading, have you ever tried to read when someone is moving the News  paper or book, again this is how some Dyslexics have to cope, with letters moving, and some words they can’t understand the meaning of, because they don’t have the know-how of recognising words that have silent letters in them.

5) Spelling;  well, what can I say, the most difficult and frustrating of all. Who was it that said the more you write a word, the more you will remember it?. I’d like to shoot him, or her in the knee.

6) When some Dyslexics read, they take longer to comprehend what they have read. They have had to read fast, so fast as to keep the sequencing in momentum with-in the word line. Only at the end of the page can they think about what they have read, thus trying to comprehend all the information.

7) Oh, I forgot in some cases Dyslexics have memory loss.

All in a Days Work

With this in Mined. Imagine starting a new job. In the Crown Court, without any one knowing you’re a Dyslexic.

1. For Starters, you would have to somehow remember the room numbers, hundreds, of them, so this would take weeks to learn.

2. Imagine eleven Courts in progress, then at the end of each day the Dyslexic has to not only try, to read what the eleven clerks have written, then type it all into the computer. And some Dyslexic can only type in a sequenced manner, if they talk out loud. Otherwise they miss words out.

3. Another job role is to answer telephone calls regarding, a particular Court out-come. This would have to be read out, correctly to the person on the other end of the phone. Remembering there were months of Court hearings for each Court Case, so one would be looking up hundreds of pieces of written documentation, before they could find the right one.

Trials moved

This is something the Dyslexic just does not want to happen

1. When it does they would have to, telephone the Prison Authority, to make arrangements for the prisoner to be transferred to where the Court has gone.

2, Telephone and write to all the witness.

3. Telephone and write to the Barristers.

4. Notify the Judge.

All this is on top of the days work

a)     Which meant, answering the telephone to Barristers, police, the general public, prison authorities, and the CPS.

b)     Tuesdays and Thursdays would be the day to collect all files (20 to 34 files in any of the days required), and all necessary paper work, relevant to the next days Trials, or PDH, or Sentences. The paper work, or files, could be on any one of four office floors.

c)      If for any reason a file went missing, then the trial could not go ahead.

d)     Write up all the outcomes of the Courts, by five pm on the same day.

e)     At the end of the week compile a statistical report on the eleven, Judges reading times, if the report was wrong in any way the Judges would not get paid.

For any one to do this job is hard enough, for the Dyslexic it was a night mare of a job, but it proves Dyslexics can do the same as anyone else given half a chance. Even though it is ten times as hard, and without anyone knowing.

What’s worth remembering is that every Dyslexic has different degrees of this disablement, and a little understanding wouldn’t go a miss.

What is also worth saying is that not all Dyslexics know they have this condition, and so go through life thinking they are daft, or stupid which they are not.

Lastly Dyslexics are as good as anybody else, and will not accept defeat of any kind, neither will they accept limitations, why should they?  

They can do anything if they have a mind to. I hope I have enlightened you all.  I look forward to your Comments.

Bournemouth Planning Authorities

We All know about the Planning systems, and the process of getting Architectural drawings granted. Most of use read all the dos and don’ts. And respond accordingly.

But who governs Planning Authorities, Who is it that has the final say in these deportments, dues anyone know?.

You see from what I’ve seen of Development Planning, it’s non-existent. I cannot take the planning Authority seriously. Have any of them really gone to University and studied, if so, should they really be Planners? How long have they studied? If at all.

I say this because, I always thought Planners cared about the environment to which development is introduced. WHOOPS this can’t be right.

Lets take a look at the Bournemouth Imax, that is now, after pressure from the public, being redeveloped. Another bad piece of planning is the road running across the beautiful gardens, in Bournemouth Centre, and blocking the unforgettable sea view, destroying the natural sea scape.

What fool gave permission, for this to take place.

I must also mention the sadness of original houses, Bulldozed to the floor, to make way for the monumental pristine, super steel enforced, toughened Glass verandas, of new housing spread along the seashores of Bournemouth, (pulled down twenty years later to make way for a carbon copy).

Hasn’t the planning Authority, realised that the long established History, and the environmental identity has been destroyed. Wiped out for ever, never to be brought back to life.

The Children and Adults of today, will now end up like our ancestors crying into Historical old photos wishing they could see Bournemouth in its original state of glory. But because of some short-sighted Planners, together with arrogant greedy Developers, its all gone.

Well done, give yourselves a pat on the back.

Sorry I've run out of Medals labelled 'gone with the wind'.