Chapter 8 looks at the organisational aspects that can contribute to success in the workplace, thereby supporting the ideas for the more personal/individualised strategies discussed in chapters 5, 6 and 7. Chapter 8, therefore, explores ways in which managers and employers can provide an environment that mitigates some of the difficulties experienced by adult dyslexics, and which should enable individuals to demonstrate their strengths. The chapter includes a range of comments from our dyslexic contributors. However, when starting this book, we also asked for ideas/comments from other people who play a part in the success of a dyslexic person, such as assessors, coaches, and managers, as well as staff in personnel or human resource departments. Therefore, we have included some of their comments in this chapter also. The chapter focuses on four main areas: (i) the workplace ecology including managing dyslexia at work, (ii) compensatory resources, strategies and information technology, (iii) work-based adjustments, including extra time, and (iv) the employer’s responsibilities, which focuses on examples from the UK.

This fourth chapter analyses the first of our body categories: the implicit dispute. An implicit dispute is what happens when a person dies, their body enters a medical research and teaching culture, but informed consent is implied, never documented in full for the bereaved. A lot is therefore left unsaid, and deliberately so. It is normal for these sorts of bureaucratic processes to be very light touch, and to have audit procedures that look robust, but are the opposite. The aim being to make it a difficult logistical task to track at the time, or retrace later, exactly what is happening, or has happened, to human material once it enters a system of body supply. Even an insider might not know who exactly had shared a body and body parts, and what scientific studies these relate to. Those grieving thus never got an opportunity to make an informed choice. They are given the impression at the time of a loved one’s death that informed consent existed, when it did not. Instead, it was often implied, particularly by those staffing large teaching hospitals like St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London: our central focus.