Specialist study skills support helps students with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and other specific learning differences build the academic strategies that university assumes you already have.
Typical work includes reading strategy for heavy reading lists, note capture that survives a fast lecture, essay planning and structure, referencing systems, proofreading strategy, exam technique, and time management across overlapping deadlines.
Sessions are practical and use your real coursework. You bring the assignment you are stuck on and leave with a method you can reuse — not a generic study skills handout.
For many students the barrier is not reading or writing but starting, sequencing and finishing: knowing what to do first, breaking a 4,000-word assignment into parts, and protecting attention long enough to make progress.
Our tutors work on those executive function strategies explicitly, including how to use timers, planning tools and assistive technology so that the system does the remembering for you.
Band 4 support must be delivered by tutors holding the specialist qualifications required by the Department for Education, and ours do. Support is available in person or by video call, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including research students.
No. University workshops are generic and group based. Specialist one-to-one SpLD support is individual, DSA-funded, and delivered by a tutor qualified in specific learning differences.
They will teach you a proofreading strategy and work through examples with you, but they cannot edit or correct your work for you — that would breach academic conduct rules and the terms of the funding.
DfE Band 4. Our current rate is on the rates page.