Description
*** This course is available free or partly funded for low-income families – please email courses@helenarkell.org.uk ***
Our essential dyslexia course for parents
Hints, Encouragement and Liaison for Parents or HELP! is a unique dyslexia course for parents of children with the learning difficulty. Discover ways to support your child and help them learn to learn. This is a downloadable online course, available to watch at home in your own time.
Whether your child has just had a dyslexia assessment and diagnosis or whether you just want to be able to help them at home, this practical, comprehensive course will help.
Develop your understanding of the many advantages and challenges that can face learners both at home and at school. The whole course offers a broad understanding of dyslexia, the impact of it in school, at home and on your child as well as specific areas of support. Alternatively, you may choose to concentrate on one or two areas of support at a time and purchase the relevant sessions.
The course is presented by Helen Barrett who is a specialist dyslexia assessor and teacher, and tutor on our professional courses.
Join us and discover a different way of learning
This dyslexia course for parents provides strategies, tips and ideas on the following:
| Session 1 | Introduction to dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) |
| Session 2 | Working effectively with your child’s school. Talking to your child about dyslexia and keeping their self-esteem high |
| Session 3 | Understanding how your child learns best, study skills and helping with homework |
| Session 4 | Supporting your child’s reading |
| Session 5 | Supporting your child’s spelling |
| Session 6 | Supporting your child’s writing |
| Session 7 | Supporting your child’s maths |
The sessions are between 45 and 72 minutes long and come with printable PDF handouts to support the recordings.
What parents say about this dyslexia course for parents:
‘It has been wonderful to attend the course at Helen Arkell. I no longer feel alone when it comes to my child. I now know where to turn to for support!’
‘Excellent presenter – clear, concise, fantastic use of examples. Can’t praise enough!’
‘Exceeded all my expectations’
‘Thank you so much. Course has been invaluable’
‘Thank you. Has given me more confidence to help my child. Also to see the bigger picture of where we are going’
*** This course is available free or subsidised for low-income families – please email courses@helenarkell.org.uk ***
Accessing our on-demand courses
Please note that we are trialling a different way of sharing our content:
When you purchase an on-demand course, you will receive an automated email from us with various links (make sure to check your junk box!). Pressing the links under the heading Download will allow you to download 1. the course handout(s) and 2. an ‘Accessing the Recording’ document. You will have 1 month from date of purchase to download these documents.
The ‘Accessing the Recording’ document contains a link to a very short Zoom registration form (only 4 questions!). Once completed, you will be granted automatic access to the recording. To start watching, you will need the passcode which will be listed in the ‘Accessing the Recording’ document.
You can now go ahead and 
view the recording. Access to the recording will be available to you for a further month after registration is complete. You can view the recording more than once by clicking the same link you used to register.
If you have any questions about this process or any other queries, please email courses@helenarkell.org.uk
