SPELD NZ offers training and professional development for assessors, teachers, special educational needs coordinators (SENCO), Learning Support Coordinators, teacher aides, families and caregivers. We also host conferences and from time-to-time run community presentations and parent information evenings.
Train to become a SPELD NZ Assessor
Train to become a SPELD NZ Teacher
Until 2023, SPELD NZ was registered with NZQA. From 2018 to retirement in 2023, we were a Category 1 provider with Excellence in all key evaluation areas. Read our most recent NZQA External Evaluation and Review Report here.
Kōwae ako/Learning Capsules
Enrich your knowledge on a wide variety of topics via our new online courses. We’ve created this pay-to-view learning in response to the huge demand from educators and families looking to better understand and support those who struggle with dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities/neurodivergence.
SPELD NZ Introduction to Specific Learning Disabilities
Are you concerned about your child’s learning journey? Are you a teacher/teacher-aide working with a child who is bright but not achieving? Are you taking on a new role as a Learning Support Coordinator? This course is for you and anyone else with limited knowledge on specific learning disabilities (SLD) such as dyslexia.
SPELD NZ Teaching Certificate in Specific Learning Disabilities
People with dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities often suffer years of failure and despondency at school. You could be the one to nurture them to success.
SPELD NZ Assessor Training
SPELD NZ Assessor training focuses on the administration and interpretation of the Woodcock-Johnson test batteries. It’s aimed at those who have the required NZCER Level C grading.
Personal Stories
Find out how SPELD NZ has helped both children and adults overcome their struggles with dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities.
Struggling to keep up at uni? It’s a huge leap from school to university where self-directed learning is required – especially for neurodivergent students. Here are some tips from the frontline.
Anthropologist Dr Ruth Gibbons views dyslexia not simply as a learning difficulty but as a different way of being in the world – almost like a subculture.
From highly anxious child to resilient adult: Former SPELD NZ student Katie Fisher shares the toolkit that helped her along the way.
Dyslexic entrepreneur Dave Begg actively hires neurodiverse staff. And he couldn’t be more optimistic about the future for his dyslexic daughter.
