Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications:

BA(Hons) First Class – University of Kent – English and American Literature with Creative Writing and a Year Abroad

MSc – King’s College London – Medical Humanities

PhD – University of Manchester – Poetry and Disability Studies

Level 5 Diploma in Teaching Learners with Dyslexia, Specific Learning Differences and Barriers to Literacy

Safeguarding training via NSPCC

The National Autistic Association certifications on: Understanding Autism, Autism and Communication, Autism, Stress and Anxiety, Autism and Sensory Experience, Autism: Supporting Families, Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum.

DBS Check on the update service

Fully insured

Experience:

Tutoring a variety of students since 2017

Students with Dyslexia

Students with Autism/ASD and ADHD

Students with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)

Students with attachment difficulties/developmental trauma

Students with Chronic Illnesses such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME, Elhers Danlos Syndrome and other long-term conditions.

Students with brain injuries including ABIs and TBIs

Students who have personal budgets for education or EOTAS (Education other than at school)

Attendance at Multi-disciplinary meetings, EHCP reviews, mediation meetings and meetings with schools.

Preparation of reports for EHCPs, tribunals, mediation and other professionals.

Experience with students with behaviour issues, utilising a PACE/therapeutic approach to behaviour management.

Published poet and writer.