Dyslexia: A Business Briefing
Why your business needs to know about dyslexia in the workplace...
Summary
- Low levels of literacy have a severe negative impact on UK productivity.
- Dyslexia is a serious business issue.
- The incidence of unidentified dyslexia is very large.
- Declaring disability is rapidly becoming less of a stigma.
- Dyslexia is defined as a disability following the Disability Discrimination Act.
- Companies who are unaware of dyslexia face litigation.
- There are positive financial benefits in recognising dyslexia at work.
The scope of the problem - some numbers
The Disability Equality Duty - what the private sector needs to know
How recognising dyslexia makes money for your company
More benefits of recognising dyslexia at work
Corporate Social Responsibility
Are you concerned?
If your company has yet to recognise dyslexia, you should be!
HDL can help.
Our specialist assessment service provides straight-talking advice for individual cases.
Our dyslexia awareness training is developed with line management in mind. The course also provides a simple model that managers can use as a tool to provisionally identify dyslexia in their staff.