Assessment and Support
What training is available for dyscalculia?
We offer a wide range of training courses for dyscalculia
- Onsite Training
BDA offers dyscalculia awareness training and strategies to support maths learning difficulties in schools for all staff.
- Virtual Training
BDA offers half day open training courses for teachers and support staff:
- What is Dyscalculia and how do we identify it?
- The theorists behind maths teaching and learning.
- Teaching Early Number work
- Using Concrete Materials to develop understanding
- Maths Anxiety and how to support it
- SASC one day training for Dyscalculia AMBDA via APEL
- Short Evening sessions for parents: how to support maths homework
- Accredited Training (E learning)
- Level 2 and Level 3 Accredited Training for teachers and support staff
- Level 5 Certificate in Dyscalculia and Maths Learning Difficulties; Support & Intervention
- Level 7 Diploma in Dyscalculia Assessment & Intervention (coming soon)
Accredited Training
- Level 2 Accredited Training. If all courses above are attended they can lead to a level 2 award with the completion of a workbook.
- Level 3 Accredited Training. This follows on from level 2 with completion of a diary of teaching and support for 15 hours covering specific topics in maths.
- Level 5 Accredited Training which leads to ATD – Accredited Teacher or Tutor status for specialist teaching of learners with dyscalculia and dyscalculia.
- Level 7 Accredited Training which can follow on from Level 5 and leads to AMBDA dyscalculia for the assessment of dyscalculia and maths learning difficulties.
- APEL route to AMBDA dyscalculia. Until June 2023, BDA are offering an APEL route to AMBDA dyscalculia for those with extensive knowledge of maths and maths cognition as directed in the SASC guidance.