Workplace Training
Bespoke training packages for any environment.
Pricing
Typically our standard courses start at £40 per person. These courses generally take between 2 – 3 hours to complete. (Click Here)
We build bespoke packages, multiple courses or custom courses to suit specific requirements. These are priced on a case by case basis.
Discounts are provided for bulk purchases. These are priced on a case by case basis.
- We can expand your organisation’s understanding of dyslexia. This will provide greater awareness of potential barriers employees might be facing. The opportunity to provide appropriate support will enable employees to optimize their contribution to their workplace.
- We will provide you with the essential tools to support your employees and colleagues in their day to day work. This will promote confidence in the workplace and the ability to facilitate reasonable adjustments.
- We can provide continued professional development to enhance individual and organisational skills bases.
- Employers who wish to support their employees
- Executives and managers
- Human resources teams
- Recruitment departments
- Education and support departments
- Organisation wide strategists
Audience
Audience
- We can expand your organisation’s understanding of dyslexia. This will provide greater awareness of potential barriers employees might be facing. The opportunity to provide appropriate support will enable employees to optimize their contribution to their workplace.
- We will provide you with the essential tools to support your employees and colleagues in their day to day work. This will promote confidence in the workplace and the ability to facilitate reasonable adjustments.
- We can provide continued professional development to enhance individual and organisational skills bases.
- Employers who wish to support their employees
- Executives and managers
- Human resources teams
- Recruitment departments
- Education and support departments
- Organisation wide strategists
How do we deliver the training?
We have an online learning platform, therefore all of our training can be completed remotely. Subsequently, the courses are available at any time and can be completed at your own pace.
We provide the option to customise the training at a minimal cost. Our specialists can design and produce videos specific to your needs. In addition, we also provide accompanying multiple-choice quizzes to help embed their learning.
We provide training for small groups remotely through video-conferencing/Webinars. This added option allows the delegate to ask any specific questions they may have. It also provides the delegate with an opportunity to participate in tasks and activities run by the course leader and expert.
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- Set the training in context with any key policies
- Ensure that those taking part in the training have understood the key message of the most crucial policy
- Personalise the CPD certificate using the company logo, as well as the Dyslexia Matters one
- Offer a webinar follow up session
Background
At Dyslexia Matters® we are a friendly, caring, approachable team of current practitioners, and our mission is to help people with specific learning differences and those who work with them. We believe in providing warm, supportive learning environments that reflect our up to date, practical hands-on knowledge, at the cutting edge of dyslexia.
We have a vast depth of experience in designing and building bespoke training packages. Most importantly, we listen to your specific requirements. This means we can build a package to enable your organisation to achieve the required goal.
Dyslexia Matters Charity is recognised as playing a national role in disseminating good practise and encouraging the promotion of further understanding of learning differences within organisations.
We offer a range of bespoke training programmes. We have provided training for the Fire Service, the Civil Service, Job Centres, Police Force, housing associations and educational establishments, both nationally and internationally.
Example of a short workplace training course
This Dyslexia Matters virtual course is suitable for anyone who supports those in the workplace and/or in training, with a learning difference.
It is aimed at anyone who wants to better understand how to build the skills to support learning differences into their everyday practice and deal more effectively with the issues that arise. It is ideal for support staff, managers, employees with an interest or brief in diversity and barriers to learning.
This course will be looking into the challenges facing people with dyslexia and how they can be supported in the workplace.
Scope
The content of the course enhances the participant’s understanding of the core characteristics of dyslexia, therefore, enabling greater knowledge and awareness of how to respond to learners with dyslexia, specific learning differences and barriers to literacy.
Teams that have received their training will be able to demonstrate that their organisation is supportive of people with learning differences. Thereby, contributing to a culture which embraces and supports learning differences with positive attitudes, behaviours and good communication.
Course Content
- Understanding the legal context of dyslexia, specific learning differences, barriers to literacy and the Equality Act 2020
- Understanding the core difficulties of dyslexia, specific learning difference and barriers to literacy
- Awareness of the support and guidance available for those with dyslexia, specific learning differences and barriers to literacy
- Practical responses to managing dyslexia, specific learning difference and barriers to literacy in the workplace and the training environment
Course outcomes
- Increased confidence/skills in offering colleagues and trainees advice and guidance for dyslexia, specific learning differences and barriers to literacy
- The definitive set of skills, knowledge and understanding to undertake a basic supportive role effectively
- Good practice and foster good relationships amongst diverse groups right across corporate activities
You will be looking beyond literacy skills at the challenges facing learners with dyslexia and how can we support them.
This module includes videos, multiple choice questions and activities exploring:
- Context
- Characteristic features of dyslexia
- How does it feel to have dyslexia?
- Visual difficulties and referrals
- Phonological Awareness
- Memory
- Verbal processing
- Supporting the characteristic features of dyslexia
- Using Assistive Technology
- Case studies
The content of the course enhances the participant’s understanding of the core characteristics of dyslexia, therefore enabling greater knowledge and awareness of how to respond to learners with dyslexia, specific learning differences and barriers to literacy.
Teams that have received their training will be able to demonstrate that their organisation is supportive of people with learning differences, thereby contributing to a culture which embraces and supports learning differences with positive attitudes, behaviours and good communication.
Who is the course aimed at?
Anyone supporting someone with dyslexia, in educational settings, the work place or within the family.
Course time:
The virtual course will run at any time to suit you and will take approximately 2- 3 hours to complete.
Venue:
Using our online platform, at work or in the comfort of your own home.
What Awarding Bodies say about Dyslexia Matters’ training provision
- An ‘excellent centre’
- It ‘delivers courses of an exceptionally high standard turning out well-prepared teachers and assessors who are prized by the organisations for which they work’
- Delivered ‘well respected and nationally recognised gold standard qualification for teachers and assessors of learners with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties’
- Known as ‘a centre of excellence in the provision of these courses’
- ‘encourages a high standard of work. Portfolios show evidence of excellent improvement coming from focussed feedback’.
- ‘Portfolios show a high level of knowledge and understanding of the course standards and requirements. This Centre provides excellent training’
- ‘All assessors are extremely competent, highly qualified and experience’
- ‘End-users and employers of the trained candidates were surveyed. These evaluations and feedback demonstrate the value of this course and the high satisfaction with which they are regarded’
Testimonials
As a manager of staff who have undertaken their training with Dyslexia Matters I can only say that staff have come away with the knowledge and understanding that they need to fulfil their roles in school. I will therefore continue to use Dyslexia Matters in the future.
While Dyslexia Matters maintains strict guidelines and expectations for the standards that they expect from candidates and will not compromise on these, the company ethos is all about enabling candidates to achieve and to succeed. The level of care and support given to candidates is second to none.
Another very important area in which Dyslexia Matters excels is in the way that assignments are planned and presented and most importantly in the feedback that candidates receive. Candidates are given very specific instructions with templates to help them to organise and structure their work. Expectations are made very clear. Those marking work are highly knowledgeable and again have the necessary skills, understanding and qualifications to complete this activity. They provide very clear information about what the candidate has done well and guidance is given which will enable the candidate to have a clear understanding of what s/he should do in order to develop work and improve.
Course materials provided are very clear and informative. In all aspects of the course they follow best practice in respect of optimising learning. A simple example of this is in their PowerPoint presentations. There’s nothing worse than being told that you should use a particular font style and size and then being shown an ‘all singing and dancing’ PowerPoint with lots of bright colours which is cluttered and confusing with print that is too small to read!
Those delivering the course are very well qualified and have an outstanding knowledge of their subject. What is more important is the fact that they have relevant experience in the field and so can talk from real-life contexts etc. This ensures that they have the necessary credibility with their candidates.
Many of our staff have been trained by Dyslexia Matters. Several have completed the level 5 and others are working towards or have completed the new PAPAA qualification. In so far as members of staff are concerned, the courses that they attended were well organised. The administration was effective and efficient. Course requirements were set out clearly. There was plenty of support at various levels.
I would most definitely recommend Dyslexia Matters. We are a specialist school for pupils with dyslexia and associated specific learning difficulties. At our school, all staff teaching literacy, as well as those doing 1 to 1 tuition must have a specialist dyslexia teaching qualification.
Get in touch today!
If you are interested and would like to know more about what we are able to provide, contact us today to discuss all the options available.
