Victoria Biggs
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2019
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I'd spent most of my life starting to think I was bad or broken or just not trying.
I absorbed all the things that were said to me.
And the moment of diagnosis with a wonderful empathetic psychologist showed me that actually things were different.
Um I'm Victoria Biggs.
Um I'm a teacher in a special school for young people with trauma related mental health problems.
You've often got additional learning differences layered underneath.
And I have learning differences myself.
I'm autistic, and I also grew up with severe dysprexia, which very much inform the way I teach.
In addition to that, I'm an academic and researcher with the University of Sheffield in the UK.
Yes, uh twelve through seventeen year olds, what we call secondary school here in the UK.
Okay.
Dyspraxia is a neurological disorder or difference and there are three main domains in which it affects people.
Um the most obvious is physical coordination, balance, spatial perception.
Um dysprexic people are impaired in their movement, for example, fine motor skills like handwriting or doing up buttons or the big gross motor skills like running, walking, riding a bike.
Um one of the ways in which I'm affected by balance coordination spatial perception issues, for example, is crossing the road.
I struggle to tell how far away the traffic is, how fast it's coming.
And so yeah, you notice these kinds of physical issues among people with dysprexia.
And then there's cognitive difficulties as well, difficulty with processing speed, short term memory, that kind of thing.
Um so you may see dyspraxic individuals as coming across as very scatty, disorganised.
Um when I disclosed to my university I had dyspraxia, uh the occupational health nurse just laughed and said, You'll be another academic then um because of this stereotype of the nutty professor.
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