Becoming a Specialist Teacher or Practitioner: All You Need to Know About Training

Every year, Dyslexia Action Training (a fellow Real Group company), helps hundreds of education professionals realise their dream of becoming qualified specialist Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) teachers or practitioners who focus on literacy difficulties.

This enables them to provide one-to-one tuition for primary, secondary or adult learners with dyslexia and other literacy-related difficulties. Many delegates go on to further study with us in order to become fully qualified dyslexia/literacy assessors.

Becoming qualified with Dyslexia Action Training means you join a community of professionals making a real impact in the lives of dyslexic children, young people and adults. You will also gain full training on our highly regarded structured cumulative multi-sensory literacy intervention – the Dyslexia Action Literacy Programme (DALP). This can be tailored to fit each learner’s profile and age, and provides scripted, interactive activities that can be carried out on a one-to-one basis or in small groups.

DALP has a unique pre-intervention assessment process, creating a literacy profile for each learner. Teachers are then guided to tackle strengths and weaknesses systematically.

If you hold a degree, and at least two years of recent and relevant experience in a school or college setting working with learners with SEND including dyslexia and literacy difficulties, you may be interested in the Level 7 Postgraduate Certificate in Specialist Teaching for Literacy-Related Difficulties or the Level 5 Diploma in Specialist Teaching for Literacy-Related Difficulties (DIST) Graduate route. Either of these options would qualify you to apply for specialist teacher/practitioner membership at Associate (ADG) level with The Dyslexia Guild.

However, if you don’t hold a degree or QTS the good news is that you can still qualify via our Level 5 Diploma in Specialist Teaching for Literacy-Related Difficulties (DIST) CPD route.

There are different training routes available based on how quickly you want to qualify and what your long-term goals are. Learn more by watching the short video below: