Jobcoaching and success with dyslexia
Hans van de Velde
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• CASE 1
• SPECIAL BRAINS
• CASE 2
• DYSLEXIA
• COACHING
• DYSLEXIA COACHING
• CASES 3 ….
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."
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