Supporting Learners with Dyslexia/SpLDs – Spring 2026
Event Date:
17 April, 2026
Event Time:
9:30 AM
Event Description
On completion of the whole course, you will be accredited with 18 hours’ CPD by the CPD Standards Office and issued with a certificate.
The Theo Paphitis Bursary fund offers a free place for 1 staff member per UK state funded school. Please fill in the form here to apply. We will review your application within a few weeks.
** If you have already applied, please do not apply again **
** We unfortunately cannot offer funding to schools that have received Theo Paphitis bursary funding before **
This is an online course. You will be sent Zoom joining details during the Thursday before each Friday session, check your junk box if you have not received the joining details by 4pm on Thursdays.
This is a very practical course for teachers, teaching assistants or anyone supporting learners with dyslexia or Specific Learning Difficulties in KS3/4. You will be shown lots of useful, tried and tested strategies to enable you to support learners effectively.
The course comprises six three-hour sessions on Fridays 9.30 am – 12.30pm online:
| Session 1 on 17 April | Overview of Dyslexia and SpLDs |
| Session 2 on 24 April | Introduction to Phonological Awareness and Phonics |
| Session 3 on 1 May | Learning Preferences and Multi-sensory Teaching |
| Session 4 on 8 May | Reading Accuracy and Comprehension |
| Session 5 on 15 May | Spelling and Writing |
| Session 6 on 22 May | Numeracy |
Book all the sessions together or individual sessions to suit your needs. Each session is accredited 3 hours of CPD, you will receive a certificate at the end of the course listing the sessions you completed and your number of CPD hours.
There will be a recording sent out after each session so that you can watch if you booked and could not attend the live session, or if you would like to watch again! If you would like access to a session that has already happened, please still book that particular session and we will send you a recording instead.
There are no assignments to complete outside of sessions.
Review from an attendee:
“I would like to say what an amazing course this has been!! I am a literacy practitioner at a secondary school, and the course was everything I was looking for and more !! It has given me so much confidence delivering my Literacy sessions, and I have gained so many tips and ideas. The presenters wealth of knowledge and information has been amazing, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every week.”
