Hello, I'm Gemma and welcome to another episode of Good Influence.

This is the podcast where each week you and I meet a guest who will help us pay attention

to something we should know about as well as answer some of your questions.

This week we're talking about dyslexia.

How being diagnosed can be a privilege.

The ways that schools and workplaces can accommodate neurodiversity and the upsides of dyslexic

thinking.

So joining me this week is Aninye Udaporo.

Aninye is an education consultant, author and the CEO and founder of In Rich Learning,

an educational platform and tuition center, which developed from the tutoring business she

founded in her parents living room when she was just 12 years old.

She was recently awarded the Neuro Minority Achiever of the Year Award at the Celebrating

Neurodiversity Awards and spends some of her busy schedule using her own experiences

of dyslexia to advocate for equity and inclusion in the workplace.

We're here to talk about dyslexia, so I think it makes the most sense if we start.

Could you tell us a bit about your personal experience of dyslexia?

So I was diagnosed with dyslexia age 11, which in the grand scheme of things for people

in the dyslexic community is very young and it's a big privilege.

I was only diagnosed with dyslexia because I went to a very good public school in West

Sussex from scholarship and so they noticed within the first three weeks of me starting

secondary school that there was definitely something wrong.

Oh wow.

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