Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre

HADC is an independent charity. Its mission is to maximize educational opportunities and enhance the quality of life for dyslexics of all ages. The Centre offers the following services.

• Consultations, Assessments.
• Speech and Language Therapy.
• Specialist Tuition.
• Support Services.
• Services for Schools.
• Professional Development for Teachers.
• Courses for Children and Students.
• Conferences.
• Bookshop/Mail order.
• Library and Resources.
• Computer Room.
• Bursaries.

The Centre's staff, including Specialist Teachers, Educational Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Counsellors and other professionals, provide a comprehensive range of services to meet the needs of individual dyslexics, teachers and schools. The Centre recognises that each individual has different problems and needs - no two people are the same - and a flexible approach allows the Centre to cater for these. A person's first contact with the Centre is normally a consultation. This provides positive advice which people can use to make their own decisions on which of the Centre's services are appropriate for them. External services to meet particular needs may also be suggested. The Centre's resources are increasingly spent on spreading the specialist skills it has built up over the past 25 years through the community. It includes one of the biggest and most active Specific Learning Difficulties training programmes for teachers and classroom assistants in the country, training about 100 people every year to return to their schools as specialist teachers. A range of services to schools and their staff is also available, including in-service training, partnership schemes, courses and conferences.

 
Checked: July 2006