employment rate for dyspraxia

[NobodyElseWill]

both my partner and I are dyspraxic and we're both working full time (at different places!). She's a team leader and I'm an admin girl. I've worked part time since I was 16, and full time since I left full time education at 22 (I'm 28 now). She's only recently gained a full time contract but often did plenty of overtime in her PT job and wasn't full time for lack of trying!!! We both commute for 45+ minutes to work. I get tired but unlike many people I do not drink caffeine (due to anxiety issues) - NT people might be as tired as me without their constant intake of coffee!

i could not live without my constant intake of tea. I would feel normal if i was on an IV of tea.

[peterkeegan]

The Government have a budget fund for people like us of £60 million to people like us into work and support us. The problems start when line managers and those them dont understand what dyspraxia is and its impact on the individual because they are usually trying out crediable information and government response is non specific on how to supoort people like us. We get frustrated because we want to work but find it difficult without the proper support in place.

additionally some line managers and those above them wont alter the way they do things to help people with dyspraxia because its too much hassle for them and also there always co workers who are bullies, those that show empathy and those that don't care.

Access to work is there to help people like us get into work by buying additional equipment, providing support staff to assist you and generally get you on a level playing field. If any IT involved contact ability net.

i have experienced being bullied and discriminated against whist working as a staff nurse in my previous job. I highly recommend joining a union (UNISON) or respective unions that are connected to your profession.

[peterkeegan]

I am currently looking into the employment rate of employees with disabilities that are in employed by the NHS and so far looks really bad, An Average of 1% of all disabilites of the work force of Primary Care Trusts and Hospitals. I wonder if 1 % is the minimum figure that hospitals and PCTs have to employ disabled workers by law and merely do that to reach their quota.

I fear that this will be the same for the majority of public and private organistaions and companies.

[Philip]

I am currently employed, well it temporary via employment agency. I have been unemployed for a long time.

I always tick the box on application form for jobs about disabled (disability) even though on the CV I do not put it on since I have had mixed readings from various training providers I have attended.

One of my job coaches at the training provider says your illness (what?),

most of the time I am asked what is dyspraxia when I do get an interview

[dupko]

both my partner and I are dyspraxic and we're both working full time (at different places!). She's a team leader and I'm an admin girl. I've worked part time since I was 16, and full time since I left full time education at 22 (I'm 28 now). She's only recently gained a full time contract but often did plenty of overtime in her PT job and wasn't full time for lack of trying!!! We both commute for 45+ minutes to work. I get tired but unlike many people I do not drink caffeine (due to anxiety issues) - NT people might be as tired as me without their constant intake of coffee!

i could not live without my constant intake of tea. I would feel normal if i was on an IV of tea.

Same here


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[Jim]

Slightly off topic

The main problem with the NHS is that the government let it be run by people from financial backgrounds like banking & accountancy who know absolutely nothing about nursing. It's run by people who view it as a business and want to brand it. They haven't got the slightest idea about practicality.

For the most part, the NHS is quite a cosmopolitan employer in that amongst the ranks you'll see people from many different ethnicities. Indeed at my place of work white caucasian is actually the minority!

I don't know about the "disability" percentages yet good sense dictates that if you're in a wheel chair... Then you're probably not going to be a nurse. An administrarional role maybe, but not a role which basically requires you to be on your feet all day. Some of my colleagues claim to be dyslexic, I'm the only one who has Dysbraxia, though despite us being a mental health hospital I do doubt many of my colleagues even know what Dysbraxia is!

I'm pretty open about it with them, especially since work is getting ever more stressful thanks to the excectitives increasing the workloads yet reducing the workforce. I need my colleauges to understand that if too much is put on my plate at once.. Then I'm going to choke. If you excuse the analogy.

That's my main problem at work. Any task invididiallly is no problem, but usually they all come along at once and it turns into an organisation nightmare. Unfortunately for me the clients (patients I tend for) mostly lack the mental capacity to appreciate this

As for stimulants... Well I can't stand coffee so I don't drink that.. But my body is really quite resistant to stimulants and drugs in general. Caffine doesn't touch me, High energy drinks such as Red Bull don't deliver the energy boost boasted on the can and over the counter medications like paracetamol etc very reley make an any impact to pain I might be suffering.

[Tom fod]

Not sure what figures there are for how many people there are with dyspraxia and equally it could be one of a number of conditions. (The medical term for this is comorbidity - and I thought morbid was all to do with death!)

I read somewhere it was 3% of population but not sure if this is working age. With 2% being profoundly affected. Of sourse it's all relative to how the person feels about their abilities/limitations.

I did some playing about with Disability figures in a previous job but it in many ways was a finger in the wind. I would assume it's under-diagnosed and not sure many people are keen to admit they're affected by something not many people know, understand or much less care about.

Dyspraxia definitely got included in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. (Ironically I was what the hell is dyspraxia?) I assume the newer Equality Act sits over/alongside. I always questioned whether the affect of Dyspraxia on myself was substantial enough that I would be protected if I ever took someone/somebody to court over discrimination.

Learning to accept the latter and instead focus on the former is the key. I guess I'm one of the lucky 1% I have a job and while it can be very hard some days I haven't done badly though some days it feels as though I can do nothing right!

I believe the figure for visually impaired people of working age is 75% unemployed.

Tom