Episodes

Eleanor is a Professor of Information Technology and Data Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the Robert A. Foisie School of Business. She is the Founder and Director of the ​Inclusive Design and Accessibility (IDEA) Hub at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which was established in 2018 to address the needs of people with differing abilities across technologies and environments. Her research expertise centers on the intersection of technology and the user. Over the past 20 years, she h...

Did you know that betwwen 20% to 40% of those in the justice system have a learning disability? That’s a global statistic and a disturbing one. Being literate is a basic human right and no one should end up in the justice system because they have low literacy skills or because they have dyslexia. Growing up on the streets of New Orleans, Ameer Baraka found himself in constant trouble with the law, which eventually led to his incarceration. During that time, he was diagnosed with dyslexia through...

Did you know that betwwen 20% to 40% of those in the justice system have a learning disability? That’s a global statistic and a disturbing one. Being literate is a basic human right and no one should end up in the justice system because they have low literacy skills or because they have dyslexia. Growing up on the streets of New Orleans, Ameer Baraka found himself in constant trouble with the law, which eventually led to his incarceration. During that time, he was diagnosed with dyslexia through...

Did you know that betwwen 20% to 40% of those in the justice system have a learning disability? That’s a global statistic and a disturbing one. Being literate is a basic human right and no one should end up in the justice system because they have low literacy skills or because they have dyslexia. Growing up on the streets of New Orleans, Ameer Baraka found himself in constant trouble with the law, which eventually led to his incarceration. During that time, he was diagnosed with dyslexia through...

Assistive technology plays such a significant role in the lives of those with dyslexia although Shae still gets lost using google maps. In this podcast, Shae speaks with Jack Churchill, with Co-Founder and CEO of Scanning Pens. Jack is passionate about technology being a great enabler. He is determined to help young people and adults with dyslexia obtain greater access to assistive technology both in their everyday lives and exams. He sits on the board of BATA (the British Assistive Technology ...

Assistive technology plays such a significant role in the lives of those with dyslexia although Shae still gets lost using google maps. In this podcast, Shae speaks with Jack Churchill, with Co-Founder and CEO of Scanning Pens. Jack is passionate about technology being a great enabler. He is determined to help young people and adults with dyslexia obtain greater access to assistive technology both in their everyday lives and exams. He sits on the board of BATA (the British Assistive Technology ...

Assistive technology plays such a significant role in the lives of those with dyslexia although Shae still gets lost using google maps. In this podcast, Shae speaks with Jack Churchill, with Co-Founder and CEO of Scanning Pens. Jack is passionate about technology being a great enabler. He is determined to help young people and adults with dyslexia obtain greater access to assistive technology both in their everyday lives and exams. He sits on the board of BATA (the British Assistive Technology ...

In this podcast, Shae speaks with Christian Boer the creator of Dyslexie font. Christian has been affected by dyslexia as long as he can remember, this experience inspired him to design a solution to improve readability for people with dyslexia – the Dyslexie font. Christian combined his graphic design skill with his dyslexia, abandoning traditional typeface design rules, favouring instead the user needs of a dyslexic person. Christian dreams of the day when being able to use Dyslexie font won’...

In this podcast, Shae speaks with Christian Boer the creator of Dyslexie font. Christian has been affected by dyslexia as long as he can remember, this experience inspired him to design a solution to improve readability for people with dyslexia – the Dyslexie font. Christian combined his graphic design skill with his dyslexia, abandoning traditional typeface design rules, favouring instead the user needs of a dyslexic person. Christian dreams of the day when being able to use Dyslexie font won’...

In this podcast, Shae speaks with Christian Boer the creator of Dyslexie font. Christian has been affected by dyslexia as long as he can remember, this experience inspired him to design a solution to improve readability for people with dyslexia – the Dyslexie font. Christian combined his graphic design skill with his dyslexia, abandoning traditional typeface design rules, favouring instead the user needs of a dyslexic person. Christian dreams of the day when being able to use Dyslexie font won’...

Mother and son duo Zivit and Gili Inbar join Shae for this month’s episode of the Dear Dyslexic Podcast to talk about their dyslexic experiences as a family and the trials and tribulations of finishing secondary school. Gili Inbar is a 19-year-old Commerce Law student majoring in Finance at university. He has a keen interest in business, politics and entrepreneurship, and would like to someday be the owner of his own business. Gili is a dyslexic advocate presenting his lived experience of dysle...

Mother and son duo Zivit and Gili Inbar join Shae for this month’s episode of the Dear Dyslexic Podcast to talk about their dyslexic experiences as a family and the trials and tribulations of finishing secondary school. Gili Inbar is a 19-year-old Commerce Law student majoring in Finance at university. He has a keen interest in business, politics and entrepreneurship, and would like to someday be the owner of his own business. Gili is a dyslexic advocate presenting his lived experience of dysle...

Mother and son duo Zivit and Gili Inbar join Shae for this month’s episode of the Dear Dyslexic Podcast to talk about their dyslexic experiences as a family and the trials and tribulations of finishing secondary school. Gili Inbar is a 19-year-old Commerce Law student majoring in Finance at university. He has a keen interest in business, politics and entrepreneurship, and would like to someday be the owner of his own business. Gili is a dyslexic advocate presenting his lived experience of dysle...

Paul Russell has been in classrooms for over thirty years, so it isn’t really that surprising that all of his heroes are teachers. He has always been passionate about stories, even before he could read. Determine never to grow up and lose his imagination he is a teacher, playwright, father, artist and author but maybe not always in that order. He is passionate about children’s literacy and in building an appetite within children for the written word and sharing stories. Shae hopes you enjoy thi...

Paul Russell has been in classrooms for over thirty years, so it isn’t really that surprising that all of his heroes are teachers. He has always been passionate about stories, even before he could read. Determine never to grow up and lose his imagination he is a teacher, playwright, father, artist and author but maybe not always in that order. He is passionate about children’s literacy and in building an appetite within children for the written word and sharing stories. Shae hopes you enjoy thi...

Paul Russell has been in classrooms for over thirty years, so it isn’t really that surprising that all of his heroes are teachers. He has always been passionate about stories, even before he could read. Determine never to grow up and lose his imagination he is a teacher, playwright, father, artist and author but maybe not always in that order. He is passionate about children’s literacy and in building an appetite within children for the written word and sharing stories. Shae hopes you enjoy thi...

Jemima Hutton 2019 Dear Dyslexic Foundation Leadership Award Recipient Jemima is a diagnosed dyslexic student who is currently studying Provisional Entry Medicine at the University of the Queensland. She has been assessed as being in the lowest 2% for reading with her eyes, however, she received an ATAR of 99.3 for her secondary school studies including two perfect scores. Jemima was Dux of her school and also ironically received the English Prize for being the top student even though she only ...

Jemima Hutton 2019 Dear Dyslexic Foundation Leadership Award Recipient Jemima is a diagnosed dyslexic student who is currently studying Provisional Entry Medicine at the University of the Queensland. She has been assessed as being in the lowest 2% for reading with her eyes, however, she received an ATAR of 99.3 for her secondary school studies including two perfect scores. Jemima was Dux of her school and also ironically received the English Prize for being the top student even though she only ...

Jemima Hutton 2019 Dear Dyslexic Foundation Leadership Award Recipient Jemima is a diagnosed dyslexic student who is currently studying Provisional Entry Medicine at the University of the Queensland. She has been assessed as being in the lowest 2% for reading with her eyes, however, she received an ATAR of 99.3 for her secondary school studies including two perfect scores. Jemima was Dux of her school and also ironically received the English Prize for being the top student even though she only ...

Dyslexic & Serial Entrepreneur, Hugo has been involved in many different projects over the past four years in France, UK and Australia all of which use artificial intelligence. These projects include the application of image recognition and natural language processing techniques to various real-world problems. Being dyslexic and dysgraphic himself, Hugo knows a lot about the struggle of learning disorders. His experience in Artificial Intelligence started 4 years ago after multiple jobs includi...

Dyslexic & Serial Entrepreneur, Hugo has been involved in many different projects over the past four years in France, UK and Australia all of which use artificial intelligence. These projects include the application of image recognition and natural language processing techniques to various real-world problems. Being dyslexic and dysgraphic himself, Hugo knows a lot about the struggle of learning disorders. His experience in Artificial Intelligence started 4 years ago after multiple jobs includi...

Dyslexic & Serial Entrepreneur, Hugo has been involved in many different projects over the past four years in France, UK and Australia all of which use artificial intelligence. These projects include the application of image recognition and natural language processing techniques to various real-world problems. Being dyslexic and dysgraphic himself, Hugo knows a lot about the struggle of learning disorders. His experience in Artificial Intelligence started 4 years ago after multiple jobs includi...

Dr Judith Hudson is a retired teacher, chartered psychologist, assessor, author and researcher of special educational needs. Her specific interest is in congenital developmental disorders, particularly how they impact on literacy development such as dyslexia, ADHD, and disorders on the autism spectrum ASD. An Adjunct Associate in the Education Faculty, College of Art, Law and Education (CALE), University of Tasmania, she has written and taught post-graduate modules in both the UK and Australia, ...

Nicole is a highly valued leader within the Global HR industry with 20 years of experience in people operations management. Remote working and distributed teams are her “thing” (- long before it became “a thing.”) As a multi-talented woman entrepreneur and an international people connector, Nicole loves leading (remote) people-based activity from a strategic and operational perspective and has a gift for developing talent. In other words, she designs, creates and supports modern people operation...