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Would you like a fulfilling job that makes a real difference in peoples’ lives? SPELD NZ is a not-for-profit organisation supporting individuals with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), like [...]

New employee, Aidan Milner, recommends total honesty and not shying away from support to level the playing field.

For Summer Riley, a diagnostic assessment lifted a huge emotional toll and enables access to extra support at university.

Families are coming under immense stress: SPELD NZ Executive Officer Jeremy Drummond talks to Newsroom about the dilemma of an education system not designed to help the neurodiverse.

Former SPELD NZ student Tadhg Norgrove is poised to become a clinical psychologist and help others who struggle with life.

Indie-pop sensation Benee embraces her dyslexia and the difference it brings.

What drives someone with learning difficulties to become a teacher? Former SPELD NZ student Elizabeth Luoni Verkleij shares her journey.

For more than 50 years, SPELD NZ has advocated for Structured Literacy in schools. Still confused as to what it's all about? Here's a 'beginner's guide' and summary of why it's so vital.

Moves are afoot to make the most of neurodiversity in the New Zealand workplace. Three big companies are backing a new certification programme they hope will change the world for neurodiverse [...]

Meet Irene Fagan - one of our earliest teachers in the 1970s when dyslexia was virtually unheard of.