Jobcoaching and success with dyslexia

Hans van de Velde

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

• CASE 1

• SPECIAL BRAINS

• CASE 2

• DYSLEXIA

• COACHING

• DYSLEXIA COACHING

• CASES 3 ….

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Case 1: dyslectic Dutchman (50+)

Dyslexia + ADHD *) Son gifted+adhd

Medicine (Aurorix) Daugther adhd+dyslexia

Lawyer Always the chairman

Secretary of Judge Gestalt Therapeutist

University Docent Expert Systems

Entrepeneur 2e Company already

1980/81 Burnout Success

*) Diagnosed 1995 (d) 2005 (adhd)

Case 1: dyslectic Dutchman

How did he succeed with his dyslexia?• Change Primary school : crisis + ‘adoption’

• Highschool : lonely outsider + the concierge

• 13 yr : newspaper delivary and cleaning offices

• 17 yr: substituting the boss on his holliday

• 20-30 yr: studying law

• 30 yr: manager changes his job computer/law

• 34 yr: change job to university teacher

• 38 yr: a yin/yang business associate success!

Keeping up humor

Every day a power nap

Case 1: dyslectic Dutchman

How did I succeed with my dyslexia?

• Intelligence (Estonia, 2007)

• Being challenged builds character

• Capricorn ‘still going strong up the mountain’ (?)

• People supporting or even ‘adopting’ me

Headmaster, Neighbours, Concierge, Boss, Manager,

Partner, Associate : they have seen my qualities!

• Hard working, Therapy, …..

• Sublimate in Textprocessing and Expertsystems !

special brains

special brains

special brains

Giftedness / Higher Intelligence Verbal-Performal Gap

AUTISM, ASPERGER, PDD-NOS

NLD, Dyscalculia

ADHD, Dyspraxia

And Dyslexia

special brains

Why do we call this ‘disorders’?

Proposal:Let’s talk about “displacement” from now on.

‘School-disorder’ : school doesn’t know how to

deal with qualities‘Management-disorder’ : doesn’t know how to use divers people

genesbrainstructure

behaviour learning feeling

conduct- dyslexia anxiety

disorder dyscalculia depression

ADHD Autism

Etc …..

Chemistry : noradrenaline, serotonine, etc

In 2015 it will be normal to say:

“My Amygdala is overheated”

A warning for the future.

About my responsibility

About me making choices

The disappearing free will

Genen Environment Me

genes thoughts feelings learned history

Genes Environment Me?

Genes EnvironmentMe

Genes Environment

dyslexia

FISHER Simon E. e.a. 2006

“… cognitive architecture of disordered and normal

reading …. candidate genes correlate to dyslexia

DYX1C1 *) , KIAA0319, DCDC2 and ROBO1

!! …. none of these genes is specific to reading-

related neuronal circuits, or even to the human brain! They have

a roles in neuronal migration or connectivity.”

*) Finnish prof.Juha Kere (2003)

Dyslexia genes

dyslexia

case 2 Company medic (39)

His Dyslexia list to work on

Text/email handling Authority

Pre-informtation form Procratination

I’ll do it alone Priorities

Bigger picture Fear to fail

Voice stammers Daring

Hand/eye-coordination SWOT

Stand up for my qualities Co-morbidity

Communicate with employers/employees

medical doctors

Nel Hofmeester (2007) *)

Research 28 med.doctors

All found their own solutions, like visiting a congress in stead of reading the book, reading summaries, use spellingcorrector.

They all see qualities of a dyslect: personal contact patient, practice, problemsolving, perseverance, diagnostic puzzles, associative thinking.

*) collegue of Dutch Dyslexia Association

We discussed:

• Genes and brains

• Genes and environment

Now we look at:

• The personal process

from detection to responsibelity

• Qualities

dyslexia

dyslexia

THE PROCESS FASES

• Detection

• Diagnoses

• Understanding

• Overcoming

• Taking Reaponsibility

• Learning

• Your Personal Medal

dyslexia Detection

How to detect dyslexia in an adult?

Procrastination

Ask for school experience

Likes to read books?

Planning/timemanagement problems

Communication signals

Look at his/her emails

dyslexia Detection

How to detect dyslexia in an adult?

The coach does the screening

Compares costs and benefits of tests

So only test of necessary

dyslexia Detection

Learning Gateway: European network instruments detecting dyslexia /NLD

Left/right Word finding

Map reading Tables (8 * 6 = 48)

Read aloud Fill in forms

Read speed Pronounciation

Spelling Name all …..

Handwriting etc

dyslexia detection

Visit your client

at home and in

the office

dyslexia

Detection

Symptoms

Of

Concentration

Problems

dyslexia Diagnoses

Hire a professional psychologist/psychiatrist

who can distinguish for example:

“concentrational problems”

- Adhd - Burnout

- Dyslexie - PDD-NOS

- Gilles de la Tourette - Attachment Dis…

- Anxiety - …….

dyslexia Diagnoses

Co-morbidity…Dyslexia never comes alone!

dyslexia Understanding

This is the pre-acceptance fase.

You have to know what ‘it’ is and means,

Before you can really accept it.

dyslexia Overcoming

Insecurity

Fear to fail

Frustration

Perfectionism

Feelings of inferiority, outsider, not belong

Depression

Trauma (being treated as a stupid person)

dyslexia Taking responsibility

Tell them:

This is your handicap, it is your life!

Explain the eternal triangle of

Victim, Savior and Prosecutor

You have to solve your problems,

find solutions, make something out of it.

dyslexia Learning

Client has to learn:

- How to cope with it

- How to let people help him/her

- How to create yin/yang cooperation

- To stop “I’ll do it alone again.”

- Learn better read/write (or just leave it)?

- Or learn ‘smart’ of ‘intuitive’ reading

(skipping the crap)

dyslexia Learning

Client has to learn:

- Train your brain

- Develop habits (day-to-day structure)

- Co-operate: pass on the ball (tennis)

- Understand the difference:

Dysl.: holistic thinker (jump to conclusions)

Non-Dysl.: Reason/think step by step

dyslexia Personal Medal

Frontside: “Succes with Dyslexia”

Backside: “Burden with letters”

dyslexia Personal Medal

Typical Dyslectic Qualities to discover

• Visual, picture-smart, 3-dimensional

• Creative, inventive, renewer

• Original, dreaming, fantasy

• Problem solver

• Out-of-the-box thinking

• Non-routine, non-automated worker

Intelligence, Parents, Dyslexia ?

• Estonia : Intelligence+Motivation+Soc.Econ

(Tarmo Strenze)

• Germany : Prisoners with dyslexia

• England : Entrepreneurs with dyslexia

From a statistical point of view

dyslexia Success

8 1/2 intelligencesLinguisticMusicalLogical- mathematicalSpatialBodily-KinaestheticIntrapersonalInterpersonalNaturalistic(Spiritual/Existential)

Dyslexia Personal Qualities

By the way:

How many of you know Gardner?

Dyslexie ADHD Asperger NLD Hans vdVpeople interpersonal 5 9 3 6 9self intrapersonal 3 3 6 6 7text liguistisch/verval 3 6 9 7 6arithmetic logical/mathematical 3 8 9 7 8nature naturalist 3 4 7 8 2picture visual/spatial 10 8 6 7 8body bodily/kinesthetic 10 8 4 2 6music rithmic/musical 3 6 6 6 4

Gardner in Excel

By the way: Gardner himself hated this sort of calculation!

HvdV ADHD dyslexie

people

self

text

arithmetic

nature

picture

body

music

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Dyslexia in the Netherlands

Dyslexia in the Netherlands

• 4% of the Dutch people = 750.000

• That’s 525.000 adults!

• 10 yr Research children 1-10yr

the V1 brain-area

• Qaly’s and Society cost

Hakkaart e.a.(2007) + student

Dyslexia in the Netherlands Hakkaart e.a.

Relative ‘Quality Adjusted Life Years’

Severe Hearing Impairness 0,81

Epilepsy 0,83

Severe dyslexia (4%) 0,83

ADHD 0,88

Eczema 0,93

Stammer/stutter 0,93

Dyslexia in the Netherlands Hakkaart e.a.

Society Costs and Benefits

School children treatment

according to Protocol € 4.500

Benefits: higher educational level, higher start and end at labormarket, higher income, so higher National Income and National production, less costs of heathcare and unemployement

Dyslexia in the Netherlands

At the moment the associations

-‘Woortblind’ for adults

-‘Balans’ for parents

are lobbying for payment of diagnose and treatment via the National Health insurance.

Parliament … Ministery of Health …

Newspapers … Television … etc

Dyslexia in the Netherlands

Dutch definition of dyslexia:

Pervasive problems with (learning to) read, write and spell accurate and fluent.

= a symptom definition!

Dyslexia in the Netherlands

DIVERSITY

Divers learning = NLD + Dyslexia

(Do you agree ?)

Proposal :

DLA = “Divers Learning Abilities”

DWA = “Divers Working Abilities”

Now we move on to

coaching

Are there any coaches present?

THE COACHING ‘PRAYER’

• Teach me to change what I can change

• Teach me to accept what I can’t change

• And teach me the difference

coaching

Key-Factor in SUCCESS

Use the negative!

Change it into something positive.

Sell your handicap *)

*) Like I did in textprocessing and expertsystems

coaching

coaching

Your Past

Your Future

Your present

coaching

The spiritual coaching credo

“Form burden to baggage”

Your backpack full of trauma,

misery, parents, teachers.

This is your richness!

Every time you share your

experience, it adds up.

(bread, mountain, bible)

coaching

The aims of coaching

1. Do what you are able and willing to do

2. Find your destination

Seen “Billy Eliot” ?

“Inside everyone

of us is a special

talent, waiting

to come out”

coaching

Aspects of coaching

genes

parents, education

belief, religion

events, environment

intelligence

neurological profile

knowledge, books

thougts, pattern

feelings, emotions

behaviour, functioning

competences

work, professionality

health (body, mind)

"n.o.s."

dyslexia coaching

The coach organizes the process and guides you through:

• Detection

• Diagnoses

• Understanding

• Overcoming …. And coming out!

• Taking Reaponsibility

• Learning

• Your Personal Medal

dyslexia coaching

The (job) coach must know about:

- Process

- Handicap

- Qualities

- Work related problems

- How to adress the peers (collegues)

- Coping or survival strategies

- Biological compensations

dyslexia coaching

Starting from the intake

First

Look, listen and feel the person

as a whole (holistic view)

Never start wih questionairies/lists

And then

Run trough the checklist of problems in the body, brain, home, work, etc.

dyslexia coaching

So, coach, you have to focus

And change your focus all the time

Do no fix on one aspect (your hobby)

The ‘agenda’ of the coach

-Screening all problems

-Take care of ‘the process’

-Organizing diagnoses

-List of aspects to work on

-Contact with manager, partner, dokter

dyslexia coaching

Always start looking around the problem

Especially when you suspect a dys…….

Clusterfamily, for example:

- grandfather never wrote

- uncle was ‘auti’

- father restless entreperneur

- son of client has dyslexia

dyslexia coaching

Realize this:

Dyslexia = problems in automating

= problem learning ‘facts’

A dyslectic employee will never do things automaticly (routineus).

So he is able to think free from the evident, free from so called ‘facts’.

Remember? Turn around negative into postive!

dyslexia coaching

Success

Not only despite your dyslexia

But also because of your dyslexia

dyslexia coaching

Sanny

Unemployed

Bachelor degree (art study)

Dyslexia already know

Coach discovers her ADHD

Medication (Aurorix)

Temporal job at a school

Found her destination (teacher)

case 3

Sylvia

“youth worker” Age 47, looks 21

Dyslexia known

Training group learn: Adult behavior

Handle emotions

Session with her team explaning Dyslexia

case 4

Cora

Student Age 25, looks 15

Dyslexia and PDD-NOS known

Training group learn: Adult behavior

Communicate

Sort of coaching in growing up

Disconnect from your parents

Changed to other study

case 5

Management advice

• Yin/yang assessment

• Use dyslect’s frustration (=motivation)

• Displacement (Right man on right job)

• Task-adjustement and provisions

for dyslect can be good for everyone

• Give time to explain himself

• Understand (e.g. word-finding problems)

Dyslexia Coaching

Dyslexia Coaching

FACTOR 1 : risc calculation psychic illnesscomparing …………………………. No coaching With Coaching

number employees 1.200 1.200percentage ill 4 4of which psychol. I llness 37 37number continu psych.ill 17,76 17,76percentage psych.defeat 15 7number psych.defeat 2,664 1,2432costs defeat in months salary 16 16number employees in coaching 0 17,76costs of coaching 0 € 71.040costs of illness € 184.704 € 86.195Total costs € 184.704 € 157.235Balance profit "coach or not to coach" € 27.469

So it pays back costs AND there is some profit

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Cases?

End of presentation

NLD = Dyspraxie ?•onhandige, houterige motoriek

•‘gekke’ ongelukjes

•fijne motoriek (pengreep, mes en vork)

•slechte oog-hand-coördinatie

•late spraakontwikkeling

•echoën, herhalingen en een monotone spraak

•dyscalculie

•aanleren van routines

•sociale vaardigheden

•angst voor ongewone sociale situaties

•moeite met herkennen van gebaren, gelaatsuitdrukkingen

•snel verdwalen

•gevaarlijk gedrag in het verkeer

Aspects of coaching

genes

parents, education

belief, religion

events, environment

intelligence

neurological profile

knowledge, books

thougts, pattern

feelings, emotions

behaviour, functioning

competences

work, professionality

health (body, mind)

"n.o.s."