Qualifications:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD/Dyslexia) and Literacy

• Postgraduate Certificate in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

• Certified Irlen Syndrome Screener

• BA Ed English Language & Literature (Dunelm)

Memberships:

• Associated Member of the British Dyslexia Association (AMBDA)

• The Dyslexia Guild

• Professional Association of Teachers of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties (PATOSS).

Experience

• More than 30 years teaching experience

• 11 years experience as a Primary Class Teacher and SENDCo

• 9 years experience as a North Yorkshire Learning Support and Enhanced Mainstream School (EMS) Cognition and Learning Specialist Teacher (Primary and Secondary)

• 7 years experience in the Independent Sector as Head of Learning Support, SENDCo and a Dyslexia Specialist Teacher

• Director and Lead Specialist Teacher at The Learning Curve STS since July 2018

• Registered tutor for The National Tutoring Programme, supporting pupils affected by the Covid-19 pandemic                                                            * DBS Checked 

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