Your Teacher Adviser

Your Teacher Adviser will be your lifeline to a wealth of expertise and knowledge about supporting a dyslexic child (or a child who is experiencing similar diffculties). Your Adviser will keep your child's file on his/her desk at all times and will build up an intimate knowledge of your child's individual difficulties and strengths.

Your Teacher Adviser will be like an expert friend to you, listening to your concerns and providing you with practical techniques that will help your child improve.

Your Teacher Adviser has at least 20 years' experience of supporting dyslexic children in schools and one-to-one. He/She has a wealth of techniques at their fingertips which are known to succeed in building up your child's confidence and skills in reading, writing, spelling, and math/s.

Help in many areas

He or she will help you in the following areas:

• building up reading skills;
  
  
• improving spelling skills;
  
  
• helping with handwriting;
  
  
• building up math/s skills, especially with multiplication tables;
  
  
• dealing with problems at school;
  
  
• difficulties with homework;
  
  
• dealing with bullying;
  
  
• confidence-building and raising your child's self-image;
  
  
• focus on success;
  
  
• suitable computer software which will help;
  
  
• useful contacts.

... like a friend I can trust ...


It is easy to feel alone and helpless because you do not understand dyslexia or how to help your child through the workings of the school system. With your Teacher Adviser you are no longer alone. You now have close contact with one of the best advisers you could have: a person who understands exactly what it is like for a child to be dyslexic and to be failing in school.

No-one should be without help and support, especially with a dyslexic child who is experiencing difficulty in school. We all need expert help at difficult times, and help is now available!

Just let your Teacher Adviser know about your concerns as they arise, and, within 2-4 days, he/she will have considered the problem and sent you a considered reply.

Your Teacher Adviser will help you through the course

Your Teacher Adviser will help you through the Dyslexia Parents Course, commenting on your practical exercises with your child. This way you will get to know each other, and many of your child's initial difficulties will become clear to your Teacher Adviser.

At this stage, the Adviser often picks up small clues about your child's vision, behavior, spelling errors and other difficulties. From his/her observations at this stage your Teacher Adviser can already begin to make recommendations which usually make a huge difference.

Advice by email

The cost of the Program includes 26 email replies from your Teacher Adviser - roughly one every two weeks. You may use your 26 emails when you wish. You may have less concerns to report during the school vacation/holidays, and more during a critical part of the school year, e.g. when homework becomes a problem, or when exams are coming up.

At the end of the year you may purchasea further year's support with your same Teacher Adviser here.

Samples of your child's writing and drawing

At the start of your Program, your Teacher Adviser will ask you to send some photocopies of your child's writing and drawing so that spelling and writing difficulties can be identifed at an early stage. You may also send further samples during the year if you choose.

It would also be nice to send your Teacher Adviser a picture of your child to go in your child's file. (We never use photos of children being tested or supported by Direct Learning on our websites. The pictures on our websites are always from a public source and are usually posed pictures which use child and adult actors.)