Advanced Certificate
in the Teaching of Children
with Dyslexia

The Direct Learning Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course is designed to provide further training for students who have already completed the Dyslexia Certificate course. The Advanced Certificate course is especially suitable for:

• teachers;
• teaching and classroom assistants;
• parents with a dyslexic child in school;
• special needs teachers;
• parents home-schooling a dyslexic child;
• private tutors;
• learning support assistants;
• other specialist educational workers.

Is the course suitable for me?


Advanced Certificate Course in the Teaching of Children with Dyslexia (or similar difficulties)

The training course consists of five Modules, and can be studied at home. The five Modules are:

The Advanced Dyslexia Certificate course is only open to students who have already completed the Dyslexia Certificate course. It provides advanced training in the particular learning needs of dyslexic children, and the areas in which they experience difficulty, especially spelling, reading, writing, short-term memory, visual trackingand math/s. The course focuses on further practical techniques and strategies which are known to raise achievement levels in dyslexic children and teenagers.

The Course Director is John Bradford.

No more difficult to study than the Dyslexia Certificate course

The Advanced Certificate course is no more diffcult o study than the Dyslexia Certificate course. There are no academic references, and each page of the course book contains illustrations, diagrams, explanations of terms used, and helpful descriptions from other students. If you have successfully completed the Dyslexia Certificate course, you will find the Advanced Certificate course equally helpful. The course takes you on to learn more techniques which you can use with any dyslexic child.

Two routes to learning

As with the Dyslexia Certificate course, there are two routes through the course, which have been provided to meet individual students' training needs:
The Regular or Standard Route:
On this Route, students will study the course book and CD-Rom, and learn about teaching a dyslexic child without actually working through the Practical Exercises with a child at the time. For this Route, there are five short Assignments.
The Practical Route:
On this Route, students will choose 15 short Practical exercises (three for each Module) to carry out one-on-one with a child who is, or may be, dyslexic, or who is having difficulties with reading, spelling, writing or math/s.
A Mixture of the Two Routes:
The course is flexible, and for each Module, students may choose whether they wish to follow the Regular/Standard Route or the Practical Route.

Course materials

The course materials consist of:

Straightforward assignments

Assignments must be sent in by email.

Grades

There are two possible grades for each Module: Pass or Repeat. An Advanced Certificate is awarded when a student has achieved a Pass grade in each of the five Modules. If a student is asked to repeat a piece of work, advice will be provided about how it may be improved, and students may repeat Assignments as many times as they wish.

The Course Book is in full color

The Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course book is printed in full color throughout, with illustrations and diagrams on every page.

The CD-Rom contains 45 short films

The Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course CD-Rom contains 45 individual films of children's exercises, as well as 69 other worksheets and documents for you to print out and use.

Length of the Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course

As with the Dyslexia Certificate course, the Advanced Course is estimated to take up to 100 hours of study. It will normally be completed in six months (about three or four hours study each week), but students are allowed up to one year (or more if there are any particular difficulties).

Fees

The fees for the course, which include the course book and CD-Rom, are listed here.

Group Discount

If you are thinking of running the Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course as a group enterprise, we will be happy to help and advise. Teaching and learning groups like this provide a really valuable activity, giving opportunities for group learning and discussion, in addition to individual study. Your group may be parents, teachers, classroom assistants, learning support assistants, or any other interested people. A 10% discount is provided for groups of three or more people.

Access to the Advanced Dyslexia Certificate course

The Advanced Certificate course is only available to students who have already completed the Dyslexia Certificate course. The material in the Advanced Certificate course assumes that you have already finished the Dyslexia Certificate course, and are familiar with the techniques and methods which are explained there. No other qualifications are allowable.

Accreditation and affiliations

The Direct Learning Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course is approved by New York University.

Direct Learning staff are members of the International Dyslexia Association and the Specific Learning Difficulties Association of Australia. Direct Learning is a supporter of the British Dyslexia Association.

Dyslexia Teacher website and Direct Learning courses are archived by the British Library.

The Dyslexia Certificate course has been running for over five years, and has been successfully completed by over 1,900 teachers, parents, classroom assistants, teacher's aides, learning support assistants and others throughout the world. The course has been used for training by many groups in schools, colleges, dyslexia associations and Young Offenders' Units.

Feedback about the course

• • The Advanced Course has helped me enormously to support my elder son. I was delighted when the advanced course was brought out so that I can learn more to help my children and, in time, to support other children with similar difficulties, as a tutor or special needs teacher. (S.M., Buckinghamshire, UK).

• • Many thanks for so many extra techniques to use in school. Brilliant! (LR.A., New York, USA).

• • The Advanced Ceritificate course is even better than the dyslexia course, which I found very interesting.  Excellent book, understandable language, well organized and structured material.  Thank you for the oppostunity! (I.Z., Mavrohori- Kastoria, Greece).

• • I have just completed the Advanced Course in teaching children with dyslexia. I began the Dyslexia Certificate course in September and found it very informative. The Advanced course was more challenging but I learned even more. I believe what I have learned will help me with students who have dyslexia as well as students who are struggling in reading,spelling, or math. (P.H., Lexington, Ohio.)

• • I have enjoyed my studies immensely, despite my initial feelings that I wouldn't have a thing more to write about dyslexia after having done the Dyslexia Certificate course.  How wrong was I? Many thanks for your encouragement. (L.C., Queensland, Australia).

• • Thank you for a wonderful course, which I have really enjoyed. I have learned a great deal of information which will be very useful for me as an individual, a mother and also as a remedial therapist.

This course has put a lot of things into perspective and this will allow me help these special children even better. Thank you very much for all your kind remarks and positive feedback that you have been giving me throughout the course.

I really have benefitted so much and it has inspired me to continue the love I have for working with dyslexic children. I am applying what I have learnt and already I can see the rewards. Thank you! (M.G., Gauteng, South Africa).

• • I am dyslexic myself and had to be taken out of kindergarten and put into a specialist dyslexic school for six years. After that I was put back into the normal schooling system.

I was almost kicked out on numerous times due to my grades being so low. It was very tough but I managed to scrape through with extra help. I went onto university and had help from the government, after a few years I moved to Japan and became an English teacher.

I found this to be very tough for two reasons, one that my dyslexia made me make more mistakes than my students and two that the teaching method was terrible.

After much soul searching I decided that I wanted to help other dyslexic children and adults but I wanted to do this in Japan and needed to learn more and get some kind of official certificate.
After searching for a course I found this one. Eventually I want to get my Masters in Dyslexia after teaching and studying more, (T.P., Japan)