Dyslexia shouldn’t hold you back, says Paddington writer

“Dyslexia – it shouldn’t hold you back if you have the correct support.

“It’s a different way of learning and once you have those tools, you can learn just as well as anybody else.”

Mr Lamont encouraged parents who think their child might have dyslexia to get them assessed and support them in their learning.

“I would give them confidence that it is not going to hold them back and it is not going to affect their life in a negative way,” he said.

Mr Lamont said he recieved a lot of help as a child, including one-to-one tuition, which helped him approach learning in a different way.

“Thankfully I have a very helpful writing partner who does most of the proof reading,” he added.