Courses Leading to Practising Certificate

The following courses will qualify successful candidates to apply for SpLD Assessment Practising Certificate from Patoss or Dyslexia Action. This list will be updated as more courses are approved by the BDA Accreditation Board for AMBDA or by SASC as meeting the training requirements for SpLD Assessment Training.

  • All courses leading to AMBDA
    [See SpLD Specialist Teacher Training Courses for list of providers.]

  • University College London
    Certificate in the Diagnostic Assessment & Management of Literacy Difficulties [from 2000 through 2004]

  • Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing (Level A) when combined with an ATS-level SpLD qualification
    [See SpLD Specialist Teacher Training Courses for list of ATS training providers.]

  • Evesham & Malvern Hills College
    Postgraduate Certificate in the Assessment of Specific Learning Difficulties validated by University of Worcester

  • London South Bank University
    LLU+ Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Dyslexia, Diagnosis and Support M Level (7) [from November 2006]

  • Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations
    OCR Level 7 Certificate in Assessing and Teaching Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia)


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