The starting point has to be an assessment of the person’s strengths and weaknesses in order to provide the right sort of guidance/support .
The teaching may also need to focus on one or more of the following:

  • Confidence and Self-esteem.
  • Mathematics.
  • Memory Aids.
  • Personal Organisation.
  • Study Skills and Examination Techniques.
  • Use of Technology.
  • Motor Co-ordination.
  • Social Confidence.
  • Anger Management.
  • Sensory Integration.
  • Other issues.

Who Does The Assessment?

The Centre is run by Linda Falkner, a fully qualified and experienced Chartered Educational Psychologist with a wide range of experience across all age groups. She also has access to an Occupational Therapist with a Specialist Dyslexia Teaching qualification who specialises in sensory processing difficulties and Therapeutic Listening, a Speech and Language Therapist who specializes in  Early Years, Autism and Specific Learning Difficulties/Dyslexia and Specialist Dyslexia Teachers, who all have nationally recognised qualifications in Dyslexia.

A particular area of expertise is educational underachievement due to concentration difficulties, distractibility and other sensory processing difficulties.