Media Releases
Unlocking Potential: Dyslexia, Productivity, and New Zealand’s Future
Article published in The Post | Te Upoko o te Ika, by Mike Styles, 21 January 2025
Mike Styles, a literacy, numeracy, and dyslexia specialist, highlights how New Zealand’s education system and workforce policies fail to support the potential of neurodiverse individuals. In his thought-provoking opinion piece, he underscores the critical link between addressing dyslexia and improving national productivity. With 10% of Kiwis potentially affected by dyslexia, Mike argues that underinvestment in capital, skills, and education contributes to untapped creativity and innovation. Drawing comparisons to the UK and the US, he calls for urgent reform to acknowledge and empower dyslexic individuals, emphasizing that fostering their talents is key to creating a smarter, more productive economy.
Breakfast news interview with Mike Styles
The chronicle of cognition – Mike Styles
Hear Mike Styles discuss his insight into the life directions and experiences of dyslexic people, how society’s institutions and systems can count against them and how this might shape the many different directions their life might take.
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Parliamentary Petition: Dyslexia & Neurodiversity in New Zealand
One News New Zealand website article and breakfast TV inverview with Mike Styles, prior to resenting Parliamentary Petition for a Commission of Inquiry into dyslexia & neurodiversity in New Zealand.
– Click here to view the news article and interview on One Breakfast news.
– Click here for an overview of the petition presented to parliament on 28 October 2022.
Article written for Listener magazine
Different, not disabled.
All of us lose from New Zealand’s backwardness in embracing those with dyslexia, writes Mike Styles.
Listener, Published Oct 2022
Breakfast news interview with Matua Parkinson
Presentation for the british dyslexia assosciation, international conference 2021
Why thinking differently is a strength in the workplace
Mike Styles is a dyslexia consultant, and Dorenda Britten is chief executive of the Britten Institute. The Britten Institute sets out to leverage the creative genius of John Britten – the inventor of the Britten Motorcycle. John had the blessing of having dyslexia.
Our economy could be turbo boosted if we supported adults and children with dyslexia
Support for adults with Dyslexia
Presenting to Dyslexic learners
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Literacy still a challenge for many
Half of our primary industry workers – people who work in farming, agriculture and horticulture – can’t read a newspaper or complicated document.
New Zealand must do a better job for our Dyslexic people
Creative and Intelligent: Dyslexia shouldn't be ignored
