Tutors for dyslexic students in London
One-to-one subject tutoring that gets a dyslexic student's understanding onto the page. In your home across Kensington and Chelsea, or online.
Dyslexic students spend their school days being marked on the mechanics of reading and writing, not on what they understand. The gap between the two is often wide, and it is where grades are lost. Our tutoring is aimed at closing that gap in the subjects your child is actually being examined in.
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What we do, and what we do not
It is worth being exact, because “dyslexia tutor” is used for two different jobs. One is a specialist literacy teacher who assesses for dyslexia and delivers a structured reading and spelling programme. We are not that, and if your child needs it we will say so.
The other is a subject tutor who knows how to teach maths, science, English or economics to a student for whom reading and writing are slow and tiring. That is what we do. For a dyslexic student in Year 9 and above it is usually the more urgent need: the syllabus will not wait for their reading speed to catch up.
How lessons are adapted
Reading is cut where reading is not the point. If the task is to understand osmosis or the causes of inflation, the tutor teaches it through conversation, diagrams and worked examples. Energy goes on the idea, not on decoding a page about the idea.
Notes are structured and short. Students leave with notes they can actually revise from: headings, key terms, a diagram, a worked example. Not a wall of copied text.
Extended writing is built in stages. Say the argument aloud, plan it in bullet points, write one paragraph, then the next. Essays stop being a single overwhelming task and become a sequence of manageable ones.
Exam questions are decoded together. Many marks are lost to misread questions, not missing knowledge. Tutors teach a routine for breaking a question down: the command word, the topic, the number of marks, what the examiner wants to see.
One method, kept consistent. In maths and the sciences the tutor settles on one clear method for each type of problem and sticks to it, so working memory is spent on the problem, not on choosing between approaches.
Subject by subject
English language and literature. The heaviest reading load of any subject. Tutors work through set texts by discussion, build a bank of short quotations the student really knows, and drill essay structure until it is automatic.
Maths and statistics. Dyslexia often shows up in worded problems, in sequencing multi-step methods and in recalling number facts at speed. Tutors translate worded questions into diagrams and numbers first, then solve.
Sciences and economics. Dense vocabulary and six-mark extended answers. Tutors teach the key terms explicitly and give students a repeatable frame for longer answers.
Exam access arrangements
Many dyslexic students are entitled to arrangements such as extra time, a reader or a word processor in public exams. These are applied for by the school, usually through the SENCO, and have to reflect how the student normally works. We cannot grant or apply for them, and we would encourage you to raise it with school early, well before the exam year.
Where a student has an arrangement, it helps to practise with it. Extra time is only useful to a student who knows how they will spend it.
Who our tutors are
We select tutors for subject depth and experience across the major UK exam boards. Our tutors are trained in the Infinite Teaching System by Hannah Kosky, a qualified psychotherapist. Every tutor completes it before they work with a student. For a dyslexic student the part that matters most is often confidence: years of red ink teach capable children that they are not clever, and undoing that is part of the work.
Every tutor is enhanced DBS checked with a children’s barred list check.
Starting from how your child learns
Before lessons begin, your child completes the Infinite Learning Profile: exam-board-aligned questions that show what they know, and a short questionnaire on how they study, focus and remember. It is not a diagnostic tool and does not assess for dyslexia. It shows the tutor where understanding is secure and where it only looks weak because of how it was tested. For children aged 5 to 11 there is the parent-completed Early Learning Profile.
What parents say
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Fantastic tutoring service. The tutor explains things clearly and keeps lessons focused and engaging. You see progress fast, and confidence builds with each session. Communication stays smooth, scheduling is easy, and…
Infinite Tutors (and especially our chosen tutor Nash) has been such a positive experience for our family. We came to them feeling quite worried, as our child had been struggling with learning for a while and had…
The support and connection my child had with his tutor was outstanding, I’ve never seen him be able to focus and improve leaps and bounds within such a short period of time. Definitely recommend!!
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Questions parents ask
Does my child need a dyslexia diagnosis?
No. We adapt lessons to how your child works, with or without a formal assessment. Our tutors do not assess for or diagnose dyslexia. If you want an assessment, the school SENCO is the right first conversation, and a diagnostic assessment is carried out by a specialist assessor or educational psychologist.
Do you teach reading and spelling?
Not as a structured literacy programme. We are subject tutors: we teach maths, English, the sciences, economics and statistics in a way that works for a dyslexic student. If your child's main need is learning to read, a specialist dyslexia teacher is the better fit, and the two kinds of support work well alongside each other.
Can you help with exam access arrangements such as extra time?
Only the school can apply for them, and they must reflect your child's normal way of working. We can tell you what we observe in lessons, which you are welcome to share with the SENCO.
Which ages do you work with?
Primary through GCSE to A-level. The pressure on a dyslexic student tends to peak in the run-up to GCSEs, when the volume of reading and extended writing rises sharply.
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