Issue 25: Illustration Callout for Jan 2025 Dystinct Magazine

Callouts for illustrations to be featured in the upcoming Jan 2025 issue of the Dystinct Magazine

Instructions to submit the illustrations are at the bottom. If you have any questions, please get in touch with me at hello@dystinct.org.

Callout 1 - Supportive parenting, Empowered Communication

• Article Topic: The Coach Approach: Parent Training as Recommended Treatment
• Article Context: This article highlights the transformative power of parent training and coaching as a core strategy for supporting neurodiverse children, emphasizing an approach that equips parents with skills to understand and support their children effectively, fostering improved relationships, confidence, and positive outcomes for the entire family.

Illustration Guideline:

Children can feel free to create an illustration as per their creativity.

If you require ideas children can create an illustration to the theme of one of the options below:

1. Parent-Child Interaction:
   A parent and child sit together, the parent offering encouragement while the child works on a task or shows off a creative project.
2. The "Coach" Parent:
   A parent wearing a "Coach" hat, cheering on their child as they navigate a path labelled "Challenges" and "Success."
3. Non-Judgmental Communication:
   Two speech bubbles: one from a parent saying, “I understand,” and another from a child saying, “Thanks for listening!”
4. Self-Care for Parents:
   A parent enjoying a cup of tea or meditating with a thought bubble showing happy children, symbolizing self-care leading to a peaceful home.

Callout 2 - Road to literacy, Navigating success.

• Article Topic: Guided by Data: Navigating Your Child's Reading Journey with Screening Results
• Article Context: This article highlights the critical role of screening assessments in identifying children at risk of reading difficulties, empowering parents and educators to work together in providing targeted support, monitoring progress, and ensuring every child can thrive in their literacy journey.

Illustration Guideline:

Children can feel free to create an illustration as per their creativity.

If you require ideas children can create an illustration to the theme of one of the options below:

1. Road Map to Reading
   A winding road labelled with milestones like “Screening,” “Progress Monitoring,” and “Success,” with road signs such as “Checkpoint Ahead” or “Extra Support Needed.”
2. Literacy Road Trip Vehicle
   A car filled with kids, books, and pencils, driven by a teacher or parent, with a sign on the car saying “Destination: Reading Success.”
3. Reading Journey Map
   A map showing a child traveling along a path labeled with milestones like "Screening," "Support," and "Success," with colorful landmarks like books and pencils.

Callout 3 - Exploring Brain Functions

• Article Topic: A Neurodiverse Journey to the Brain
• Article Context: This article highlights experiments and activities from the Neuroscience for Neurodiverse Learners (NNL) program, designed to teach neurodiverse high school students about the brain, while sharing these resources to help others replicate the engaging and educational experiences.

Illustration Guideline:

Children can feel free to create an illustration as per their creativity.

If you require guideline, children can draw an illustration to suit the following prompt:

• Children with magnifying glasses examining a large brain, with thought bubbles showing emotions, activities, or ideas connected to different brain areas.

Callout 4 - Rapid Automatized Naming

• Article Topic: What Is Rapid Naming and How Does It Affect Your Child's Reading?
• Article Context: This article explains the critical role of rapid naming in reading development, highlighting its connection to dyslexia, its use as an early indicator of reading challenges, and the importance of targeted, evidence-based interventions to help children overcome difficulties and achieve reading success.

Illustration Guideline:

Children can feel free to create an illustration as per their creativity.

If you require a guideline, children can draw an illustration to suit the following prompt:

• A colourful grid of letters, numbers, or objects with a child pointing to them, showing a rapid naming activity.

INSTRUCTIONS

Instructions for creating illustrations:

• If your child can create digital drawings, that would be preferred. If not, illustrations on paper will suffice. (If your child can create a digital illustration, please let me know about the software/platform they will use to create the file).
• Please create/draw/colour on an A4 sheet of WHITE paper.
• Scan the image and send us a clear image of the illustration without shadows. Please do not take a photograph using flash on your mobile device.

Instructions for submitting your illustrations:

Please email me your submissions to hello@dystinct.org with the following info:

• Short bio- 25-50 words
• Name of Child
• Age
• Location (City/Country)
• Diagnosis/suspected diagnosis
• 1-2 high-resolution headshots/ photos of the child

Illustrations featured in the previous issue of Dystinct Magazine

The below illustrations were featured in previous issues.