Specialist Support and Coaching
We work with a network of experienced and qualified tutors offering Specialist 1 to 1 support to clients with a variety of neurological differences; whether an individual has assessment of dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD or mental health. If there are difficulties with particular tasks required for day-to-day studious activities or in the workplace, our specialists will endeavour suggest, provide or customise strategies to help.
To aid the support sessions we provide a number of downloadable PDFs to help with the particular difficulties, incorporated with practical strategies are our Neuro-Toolkits.
Study Sessions may incorporate techniques or strategies for:
- Effective Study Skills
- Addressing Learning Anxiety
- Writing: Assignments, Essays, Reports, Dissertations, Emails
- Getting more from lectures
- Establishing Learning Priorities
- Exams and Assessment Tasks
- Reading for Research
- Time Management & Organisation
- Preparing for Graduation/Work Placements
- Incorporating Assistive Technology
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If you are interested in having specialist support, please contact us.
Workplace Sessions may incorporate techniques or strategies for:
- Organisation Strategies
- Writing: Reports, Emails
- Completing report forms
- Getting more from meetings
- Establishing Priorities
- Professional Exams and Assessment Tasks
- Reading Effectively
- Time Management & Organisation
- Incorporating Assistive Technology
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If you are interested in having specialist support, please contact us.
Assistive Technology Tutoring
We believe that learning how to use Assistive Technology is a skill for life. Our one:one AT tutoring and ongoing advice and support is designed to build the confidence of every client. NeuroKnowHow tutoring allows you to learn and work more efficiently and effectively because it’s designed with you for your needs.
Five reasons to choose NeuroKnowHow AT Trainers
- Our Assistive Technology Tutoring helps individuals become independent and confident.
- Sessions are tailored to specific needs, focusing on individual learning style, including ESOL.
- Our tutors incorporate specialist support strategies into the Assistive Technology tuition.
- Our tutors understand how effective AT can be, but also know its limitations.
- A specially created Learning Curriculum Inventory is used to inform session as well a creating Session Learning Records and collecting client feedback for quality assurance purposes. These can be used by the client themselves or interested parties with the appropriate permission.
Session content: What you can expect from your NeuroKnowHow sessions.
First Session: We establish the learners current level of computer skills with the learner in an open discussion, where learning and course/workplace needs are explored, offering our expertise to help clarify them. The tutor helps the learner to prioritise the learning requirements and to identify the learning methods that will make best use of the Assistive Technology equipment and software.
Following sessions:
- Introducing software
- Showing how software can be applied to studying and employment tasks
- Providing multi-sensory techniques to find the learning method that best suits the client
- Incorporating referencing and note-taking strategies, using open source referencing and bibliography software
- Revision strategies using AT and other software, websites and hardware
- Personalised “VideoCaptureNotes” are created for each session and stored on the clients machine to review when necessary
Our aim by the end of each session is that you will be able to show the trainer how specific equipment works . Feedback is always encouraged so that future sessions can be adapted to your learning needs.
What do others say about our AT tutoring?
Previous sessions delivered by our specialists have been described as stimulating and above all useful. Some have said how different they are from other help they have received because the tutors really know their subject from the inside as well as from their external learning. Testimonials from can be read here.
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