Work with Us
What we do
We provide the parent and child with a professional, supportive environment for issues that you would like to resolve with your child’s education and learning difficulties and progress. You are provided with strategies, education intervention programs, along with auditory, visual, and movement therapy methods which are, time-tested techniques and tools supported by scientific research which have been proven to be effective.
Who do we work with?
We work with students in education from reception right up to university and postgraduate study.
Where are We?
At the Clinic
You can visit the Learning Specialists Clinic in York (Micklegate area) or have sessions online. Or a combination of clinic and online appointments.
The clinic has a waiting area, where you can help yourself to tea, coffee, and of course hot chocolate (the parents enjoy it just as much as the children!). The room itself is a relaxing environment for you to learn about how your child learns and can progress. Parking is easy with short, medium, and long-stay parking available, off The Crescent, The Everyman cinema, and in Nunnery Lane carpark.
Video Conferencing
Zoom is the platform we us for remote sessions. Zoom is easy to use and no special software is required. Remote sessions can be facilitated by using a computer, laptop, tablet, or even a smartphone with a reasonable size screen, good camera and clear sound.
A quiet, comfortable, and private place is needed, where you won’t be disturbed.
Your Appointments
Parent meeting
This is an information gathering session for 50 minutes where the parent gives detailed information about the child’s strengths and difficulties. Identifying the areas they want to improve. As well as allowing the parent to discuss and understand the therapies offered.
Initial Assessment
Each appointment is 50 minutes long. The first appointment is an assessment so is a double session and is split into 2 x 50-minute blocks with a 10-minute break in-between. The assessment will either be for primitive retained reflexes or auditory processing or visual perceptual skills. Each assessment will depend upon what the needs of the child are and what goals the parent identified in the parent meeting.
Booking of sessions
Sessions are usually booked in packs of 6, to ensure that the therapy is attended regularly and parents get a regular appointment so they can attend around work and other commitments.
Therapy sessions
In the following sessions, after the assessment they are generally a single 50-minute appointment every 3 weeks or a double appointment monthly, depending upon the therapy that has been set. (The age of the student also impacts the regularity and length of the appointments; secondary students tend to come out less often for a longer appointment and the opposite for a younger primary student). At the end of each session, therapy is set to be done at home. (Usually taking from 3 minutes to 10 minutes a day depending upon what is set).
Meet the Team
Fiona Healey – Educational Consultant
Fiona has been in Education for 29 years and is an experienced head teacher of a Special Needs School. She uses this experience to support parents to navigate the school system and to advocate for their child. Also to support the student to make the classroom a better experience.
Fiona has worked with supporting students with Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyspraxia in Primary, Secondary and Special Need Education settings. She has also worked with students in the care system who are fostered and adopted. She is a fully qualified Dyslexic Specialist teacher, Johansen Auditory Provider and a Reflex therapist.
Fiona has a background of dealing with students with trauma and is currently training to be a Solution Driven Hypnotherapist.
Fiona provides Reflex Integration Therapy, Johansen Auditory Therapy, Vision Perception therapy, Dyslexia, Autism and Dyspraxia (DCD) support .
Caroline Hunt – Dyslexia Assessor And Teacher
Caroline is a fully qualified and experienced Primary now a specialist tutor and assessor with Qualified Teacher Status, Approved Teacher Status (British Dyslexia Association).
and a Postgraduate Certificate & Diploma in Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia) from Dyslexia Action and the University of York.
Caroline Provides Dyslexic Assessments and dyslexic Tutoring for Learning Specialists Students.
Claire Oxley – Dyselxia Specialist Teacher And English Tutor
Claire has a background in private one-to-one and small group tutoring (both primary and secondary students), English teaching in schools, museum learning and has undertaken specialist post-graduate study in Language, Literacies and Dyslexia at the University of Birmingham. A member of Patoss – The Professional Association of Teachers of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties.
She is a strong advocate for supportive, personalised, student-centred learning by specialist teachers.