DYSLEXIA

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At National Home Study, we understand how dyslexia can hold you back, preventing you from achieving the qualifications and recognition you are capable of.

That's why we are the only college in the UK to offer special support for dyslexic students, at no extra charge.

Dyslexia shows itself primarily as a difficulty with written language, particularly with reading and spelling. As many as 1 in 5 of us are diagnosed as mildly dyslexic during our early years at school. Dyslexic individuals often have difficulty with learning the associations between letters and the sounds they make when place together in a word, and they may also reverse or mix up letters when writing.

Although dyslexia causes us to spell or read words incorrectly, it is not an intellectual disability. Dyslexia occurs at all levels of intelligence; sub-average, average, above average, and highly gifted.

Common signs and symptoms of dyslexia are:

Spelling errors — Because of difficulty learning letter-sound correspondences, individuals with dyslexia might tend to misspell words, or leave vowels out of words.

Letter order - Dyslexics may also reverse the order of two letters especially when the final, incorrect, word looks similar to the intended word (e.g., spelling "dose" instead of "does").

Phonetic spelling - Dyslexics also commonly spell words inconsistently, but in a highly phonetic form such as writing "shud" for "should".

Dyslexic individuals also typically have difficulty distinguishing among homophones such as "their" and "there".

There is no magic cure for dyslexia, but dyslexic individuals can learn to the same ability as everyone else providing they use materials and techniques that take into account their particular needs.

National Home Study are the only college in the UK to provide a specialist dyslexia friendly version for all of their courses.

Using plain and simple English, specialised learning techniques and a combination of short answer and multiple choice assessments, you can now achieve exactly the same qualification as one of our standard courses.

Don’t let dyslexia hold you back! To request the dyslexia version of your course, simply select the "dyslexia option" from the drop down menu when you enrol online using our secure server. Or give us a call and we'll do it over the phone for you.

Important, please read carefully:

Dyslexia-friendly course options are now available on all of our standard level 3 diploma courses.
We can only process online enrolments for our dyslexia-friendly course options when using our secure server. We can't accept online enrolments for our dyslexia courses using PayPal.
Don't want to enrol online? We can process your enrolment for a dyslexia-friendly course by telephone or post if you'd prefer to enrol that way.

Any more questions? Please don't hesitate to get in touch.

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