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Dyslexia support

Vetted shadow teachers, special educators and tutors for children with dyslexia, at school and at home, working to the plans your child's clinicians set.

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Educational support and BCBA-supervised ABA, working alongside your child's clinicians.

Chapter 1

What a child with dyslexia usually needs

  1. Structured, multisensory reading and spelling, taught in small steps and revisited until they hold

  2. Reading support in every language the school teaches, including Hindi or the regional language

  3. The accommodations the school and the board allow, arranged in good time

  4. Adults who separate reading difficulty from intelligence, and say so to the child

Chapter 2

How a shadow teacher or special educator helps

A remedial tutor or special educator for a child with dyslexia teaches reading and spelling explicitly: sounds to letters, letters to words, in short sessions that build on each other. They work to the psychologist's report, adapt the approach for the second language the school teaches, help the child practise with extra time or a reader where the board allows one, and report monthly against agreed targets. A shadow teacher, where the school agrees, carries the same approach into class.

Chapter 3 · Where our role ends

Dyslexia is identified by a clinical psychologist, usually working with a paediatrician, and only once formal schooling has begun. A certificate for board concessions is a separate step, through a notified medical authority. Our tutors and educators do not assess or certify; they work to the report.

Chapter 4

Your child's team, working as one

With your consent, we build the child-support profile with the school and with any therapist, psychologist or paediatrician already involved, so the professional arrives knowing the plan rather than guessing at it. Monthly reports go to you, and to them if you wish.

Family

Sets the priorities, knows the child best

School

Class teacher, inclusion coordinator, IEP

Clinicians

Assess, diagnose and set therapy plans

Our professional

Carries the plan into every hour of the day

Your child

One plan, one record, everyone reading it

Chapter 5

Questions families ask

Can a shadow teacher or special educator help a child with dyslexia?+

A remedial tutor or special educator for a child with dyslexia teaches reading and spelling explicitly: sounds to letters, letters to words, in short sessions that build on each other. They work to the psychologist's report, adapt the approach for the second language the school teaches, help the child practise with extra time or a reader where the board allows one, and report monthly against agreed targets. A shadow teacher, where the school agrees, carries the same approach into class.

Is this therapy?+

No. Dyslexia is identified by a clinical psychologist, usually working with a paediatrician, and only once formal schooling has begun. A certificate for board concessions is a separate step, through a notified medical authority. Our tutors and educators do not assess or certify; they work to the report.

Do you have Hindi-speaking professionals experienced with dyslexia?+

Where the candidate pool allows, yes. English is always guaranteed; Hindi and regional-language placements are arranged on the brief.

Where in India?+

We are present in 55 cities across India, including Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and remedial tutoring also runs online anywhere in India. Choose your city below for local schools, neighbourhoods and languages.

By city

Dyslexia support in your city

We are present in 55 cities across India. Choose yours for the local schools, neighbourhoods and languages.

Further reading

Reading on dyslexia

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Not sure what your child needs yet?

Many families come to us before there is a diagnosis. Tell us what the school has said, and we will say plainly whether we can help, or whether a clinician should come first.