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Dyslexia Scotland has a register of self-employed dyslexia tutors who work with individuals of all ages. Whether you are looking for a tutor for yourself or a child, having the one-to-one attention of a tutor provides support to build your skills and gain confidence in learning.
Finding a dyslexia tutor
To find a dyslexia tutor in your area, please complete our tutor enquiry form.
Please note there will be an extended delay responding to your enquiry about a tutor while we update our systems and work through the current backlog.
Contact our Tutor Administrator
Sheila McLaughlin
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07540 717 336
Are you struggling to fill in the online form? No problem, we can help. Get in touch.
Tutors for children and young people
Parents and carers who have found a tutor through Dyslexia Scotland often see huge improvements in their child’s learning.
A dyslexia tutor can help your child:
- learn to learn
- learn at their own pace
- develop strategies for doing school work
- enjoy learning
- get help with homework, or things they find difficult at school.
Tutors for adults
As an adult, you may have a number of reasons for looking for a tutor. You may want help with literacy or study skills; you may be finding paperwork and forms challenging; or need help with organisational skills or time management.
For an adult, a tutor can help you:
- learn techniques created specifically for people with dyslexia
- learn at your own pace and in a way that suits you
- develop strategies for the things you find tricky
- build your self-confidence to tackle problems independently.
Parent Feedback
“My son struggled with times-tables and felt himself to be ‘thick’ because of this. The tutor worked with him to identify ways he could quickly work out answers if he was not able to memorise them. They worked on positive strategies to ask for support at school and dealt with anxieties he had about the changes. This was all very supportive of my son and helped him to feel better about himself and see that there are lots of ways to learn not just one.”
Find a dyslexia tutor in your area
To find a dyslexia tutor in your area, please complete our tutor enquiry form.
Please note there will be an extended delay responding to your enquiry about a tutor while we update our systems and work through the current backlog.
Contact our Tutor Administrator
Sheila McLaughlin
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07540 717 336
Are you struggling to fill in the online form? No problem, we can help. Get in touch.
FAQs
The Tutor List Service helps parents and carers find vetted tutors. All listed tutors have undergone checks, including PVG screening, but parents should also carry out their own checks before hiring. It is the parent/carer’s responsibility to ensure that the tutor holds a current PVG for the role of private tutoring children and/or vulnerable adults, as appropriate, at the time of engaging the tutor.
Tutors on our list are not employed by Dyslexia Scotland, so we do not arrange a PVG specifically for them. However, we do confirm that they are a member of the scheme at the time of application to the Dyslexia Scotland tutor list, and that the information available indicates that the individual is suitable to work with children, young people and protected adults.
MyGov.Scot recommends that parents or carers ask any tutor they are considering hiring to apply for a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) certificate specifically for private tutoring.
As all the tutors are self-employed, they have their own scale of charges.
In our experience, rates range from approximately £25 to £45 per hour.
Tutors will be happy to outline their charges when you contact them.
Tutors may charge travelling expenses depending on circumstances.
- They must be members of Disclosure Scotland’s Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (PVG).
- Before adding a potential tutor to the list, Dyslexia Scotland will check the tutor’s qualifications and PVG Membership, take up references and interview the applicant.
- Many of the tutors are registered with the General Teaching Council
- Many of the tutors have additional specialist qualifications.
- All tutors on our list must be able to demonstrate extensive experience in teaching and supporting people with dyslexia.
- When tutors are added to our Tutor List, we agree on the age ranges they will support – based on their skills and expertise. Some tutors will have experience working with all ages, while others will focus on working with specific age groups – for example, children and young people in primary school or high school, college or university students, adults in employment, and enemployed adults.
Please ask the tutor if you have any questions about their details, including their qualifications and experience.
The support the tutor gives will depend on the age and needs of the individual.
Parents often comment on the improvement in their dyslexic child’s confidence after hiring a tutor.
Students may look for help with basic skills such as reading, writing, spelling and maths, or want support with study strategies, organisational skills, exam or memory techniques.
Some tutors may suggest assistive technology/software that could benefit individuals.
Adults may request help with specific things such as improving basic skills, time management, ICT, theory tests, workplace support, or dealing with correspondence.
Please note that our tutors are generally not subject specialists. They are on our list because of their skills and expertise in providing learning support for people with dyslexia, not because they have knowledge of any specific subject unless explicitly stated.