Is the Advanced Certificate Course suitable for me?

You must have completed the Dyslexia Certificate course before you can start the Advanced Certificate course.

The course is suitable for:

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

Teachers

As a mainstream teacher who has completed the Dyslexia Certificate course, you may wish to learn advanced skills for working with dyslexic children. The Advanced Certificate course course will provide you with further advanced training. The course focuses on further practical techniques and strategies which are known to raise achievement levels in dyslexic children and teenagers. .

Parent with a dyslexic child in school

If your child is experiencing difficulties with reading, spelling or math/s in school, the course will give you:

• the advanced skills you need to assist them with their homework, reading, spellings, and math/s work at home;
• advanced methods to overcome the particular blocks to learning that a dyslexic child experiences;
• advanced techniques to improve their difficulties with short-term memory, visual tracking, phonics, reading, math/s, etc.;
• the knowledge and understanding you need when you approach the school to see that everything possible is done to assist your child's learning.

Resource/Special Needs teachers

As a teacher of children with some kind of learning difficulties in your school, you may feel that the training you have received is not up to date. You are in contact with dyslexic children (possibly undiagnosed) every day, and you want to learn more about exactly how their learning needs can be addressed. The DyslexiaAdvanced Certificate course will give you an advanced understanding of dyslexia, and advanced, up to date techniques that can bring about a turning point in a dyslexic child's learning.

The course will give you an advanced body of knowledge and practical teaching techniques from which you will be able to advise other teachers in your school about how to assist and support the dyslexic children in their classes. It will also allow you to advise parents on how to approach their child's homework and self-confidence.

The course includes a detailed section on how to run a meeting for teachers on dyslexia.

Parents home-schooling a dyslexic child

Now that you have completed the Dyslexia Certificate course, you may feel that you wouldlike to equip yourself with more advanced and up to date techniques to assist your child.

The Advanced Certificate course will give you the confidence you need to use advanced teaching methods now that you are your child's main teacher.

Private tutors

As a private tutor, you are probably already teaching dyslexic children or teenagers - though they may be undiagnosed. You may find that suitable advanced training courses are not available locally. The Direct Learning Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course will allow you to make an assessment of possible dyslexia in a child and to broaden your range of advanced teaching techniques.

It will also give you greater confidence and knowledge of dyslexia when dealing with a child's school, and will allow you to advise parents on how to approach their child's homework and self-confidence.

Classroom and learning support assistants

As a classroom or learning support assistant, you may feel that, whilst you are the main teacher for many dyslexic children in school, you do not have enough professional training to assist these children. The Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course will equip you with the advanced techniques you need.

Other specialist educational workers

There are other specialists who work with children in an educational context - speech therapists, opticians, counselors, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and many more. You may feel that a lot of children are being referred to you, but you do not fully understand their learning difficulties. The Dyslexia Advanced Certificate course will provide you with the knowledge of how to make an assessment of possible dyslexia, and how to use advanced techniques that will compliment your own specialist area.