Teachers! Over here! Please tell me what qualifications you have.

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Can anyone suggest what qualifications I should be looking to gain if I want to teach / tutor children with dyslexia / dyscalulia.

The dyscalculia side of things is my particular area of interest, but not sure if there are separate qualifications for that.

I an currently a qualified primary school teacher in Warwickshire with a lot of experience supporting 1to1 and intervention groups, but I have no official qualifications for this.

www.dyslexia.bangor.ac.uk/coursesforteachers.php.en
I did this. I think you need to be looking at something similar. It involved weekend lectures and teaching practice. Hard work on top of a full time teaching job but well worth it.

I am a specialist teacher and you need the certificate of SpLDs OCR to give multi-sensory lessons or if you want to assess dyslexia and dyspraxia, do the diploma of SpLDs one day a year too.
Can do at local colleges but ask around for others who have done the course as I have done local colleges not give the complete syllabus and bad teaching!

Good luck.