The
Interview
Five employees all with dyslexia were interviewed. All five employees come from different jobs and workplace enviroments.
Question 1: What sort of work do you do?
“I am a copyright librarian. My main duty is to negotiate fees and catalogue the database.”
“I am an illustrator and I teach 2 days a week, teaching art and design”
“I work in the social care field, basically working with homeless people and with people with substance and alcohol issues”
“I work at a housing organisation; we work to resettle homeless people. My job is to coach employees in best practice in resettlement, typically I train the trainer.”
“I work for a telecoms company as an engineer but I’m on full time release to the communications workers union, I am a national official for the union”
Question 2: What made you seek an assessment?
“It all came ahead when we moved to an open plan building and found it very hard to cope with the level of noise.”
“I always noticed I had difficulties with certain things. Recently when I am presenting to a large number of people, I can’t recall the information that I need. I get muddled and stumble over words. I noticed that other member of staff weren’t having the same problem. I also have a problem with listening to people and processing what they are telling me”
“Due to the level of administration work that I now have to undertake compared to when I first started in this role in 1995 has increased. I noticed that I was struggling with reading and writing and someone in my office suggested that I should go for an assessment.”
“My manager suggested I should go for an assessment as the recognised some signs of dyslexia and because they are teachers they have some history of working with dyslexia.”
“It was when I started at national level at the union, and there was a lot more paper work than at local level, I became slower at reacting to things which caused problems, as I was struggling to respond to emails I went for an assessment.”