Students We Help
One to One Mentoring and Study Skills Support
Specialist Academic Support provides both face to face and remote support sessions that are designed around your homelife, work and other commitments.
Sessions can be arranged to fit around you and your needs to make sure you stay on track and achieve greater academic performance and success in higher education.
1:1 Study Skills Support for students diagnosed with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)
Our 1:1 Study Support Services is for students diagnosed with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), which may include Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other possible Learning Difficulties.
Our specialised tutors will deliver customised study skills training and guide students in identifying their own styles of learning and strengths using a variety of multi-sensory methodologies to enhance independent learning. Students will receive assistance with their literacy skills in the areas of spelling, punctuation, grammar, and communication clarity.
- Skills in time management and organisation
- Effective reading strategies for academic literature
- Taking notes from texts, handouts, and presentations
- Skills to conduct research
- Techniques for mind mapping and organising
- Techniques for proofreading
- Tackling writing tasks
- Skills and tactics improving memory
- Methods of revision
- Exam/essay question analysis
1:1 Study Skills Support for students diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC)
Tutors will help students to solve specific academic challenges that individuals with ASC face in completing academic studies, as well as to help them overcome social boundaries in higher education. Tutors will help young people excel academically by advising and coaching them in the development of a variety of study skills as well as transferable/interpersonal competencies such as social and communication skills.
Our tutors can help with:
- Help develop skills for autonomy in the learning environment
- Skills in time organisation and time management
- Support in acquiring, recalling, and retaining information of written and spoken language.
- Support with memory, organisational, attention, and numeracy difficulties
- Taking notes from texts, handouts, and presentations
- Skills in research, mind mapping, and planning strategies
- Techniques for proofreading
- Tackling writing tasks
- Exam/essay question analysis is one of the revision approaches.
- Identifying social cues and boundaries and soft skills development
Mental Health Mentoring
Specialist mentors give one-on-one support that is highly specialised and precisely customised to help students overcome the challenges to learning posed by a specific condition. This assistance is primarily given to students who have mental health issues, not limited to:
- Depression
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/M. E
- Anxiety
- Eating Disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
Mentoring is not the same as counselling; the mentor’s role is to assist students in recognising the roadblocks caused by their condition and to assist in providing strategies for addressing these barriers, particularly during times of transformation, such as when starting university. For some students, this assistance will be continuous, whereas, for others, it may be slowly phased out or only considered necessary at certain points during their course.
Our Mentors can help with:
- How to deal with anxiety and stressful situations
- Help with motivation, boosting self-esteem and resilience
- How to deal with mental fogginess and concentration difficulties
- Time management including goal setting, schedules, prioritising workload
- Achieving an appropriate study-life balance.
- Support with self-management and self-care
Find out how to apply for DSA and get help with us on this page DSA Funded Support.
If you think you may benefit from support but are unsure, do not hesitate to contact us to find out more.
If you have any questions about your DSA, Needs Assessment or your Entitlement Letter or how to name us as a provider, Please contact us by emailing us at contact@specialist-academic-support.co.uk or completing our contact form.
