Special needs

If your child has a special educational need, an independent school may be able to offer the help that you need

Editor's Choice

"My son has dyslexia and his state school let him down"

  • Eileen Tiffin de Quadra
  • June 15, 2009
  • Rated: 5.0

    • Follow the story of a Newcastle couple who looked to an independent school for a solution …read more

Top Rated

"My son has dyslexia and his state school let him down"

  • Eileen Tiffin de Quadra
  • June 15, 2009
  • Rated: 5.0

Follow the story of a Newcastle couple who looked to an independent school for a solution …read more

“I see ADHD as a gift" by Rosa Ingram Rated: 4.5

Rock n' roll can help slow learners Rated: 4.5

Exclusive Articles

The graduate, Daniel Williams

  • Amanda Nicholls
  • Nov. 12, 2014
  • Not rated

Entrepreneur DANIEL WILLIAMS on life at Ralph Allen School and starting a business to raise awareness of visual impairment …read more

Positive signs: Exeter Deaf Academy’s head of school Keith Stevens reflects on his fascinating first year

  • Keith Stevens
  • July 14, 2014
  • Rated: 1.0

Keith Stevens on his first year at Exeter Deaf Academy …read more

On the plus side

  • Rosie Sharratt
  • June 28, 2013
  • Not rated

A local mentoring charity gains a new director and continues its great work at local schools …read more

PEP up your life: We talk to PEP facilitator Anthea Gill about unblocking obstacles to learning

  • Emma Clegg
  • March 22, 2013
  • Not rated

How PEP makes learning easier …read more

Appleford School: where dyslexics succeed

  • Emma Clegg
  • March 12, 2013
  • Not rated

APPLEFORD SCHOOL teaches within a caring, happy and structured framework, giving pupils the confidence to achieve in learning and in life …read more

"My son has dyslexia and his state school let him down"

  • Eileen Tiffin de Quadra
  • June 15, 2009
  • Rated: 5.0

Follow the story of a Newcastle couple who looked to an independent school for a solution …read more

Rock n' roll can help slow learners

  • March 16, 2009
  • Rated: 4.5

Children with developmental problems are benefiting from a new programme that involves 10-15 minutes a day of rocking, rolling, gliding and crawling …read more

“I see ADHD as a gift"

  • Rosa Ingram
  • Dec. 3, 2008
  • Rated: 4.5

Find out how actor Ross Davidson manages his ADHD …read more

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