• SpLD Assessment Practising Certificate, PATOSS,(2023)
• Level 7 Diploma in Teaching and Assessing Learners with Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties, (2023)
• Level 5 Diploma in Teaching Learners with Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties, (2022)
• Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), Kingston University,(1998)
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) 2:1 in Sociology, The University of Reading, (1995)

• An empathetic, versatile and motivated specialist teacher and assessor for dyslexia with a wealth of teaching experience spanning both the state and private sectors.
• As a qualified primary school teacher with a specific interest in dyslexia, Courtney undertook training at the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre for the Level 5 and 7 Diplomas in Teaching and Assessing Learners with Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties. She is delighted to now work as an Associate Assessor for the charity, providing full diagnostic assessments. Alongside this role, she also works as a literacy intervention teacher at a local primary school where she utilises her specialist teaching skills, delivering targeted, multisensory teaching to boost attainment in literacy.
• In all her work, she strives to identify individual strengths and achievements to develop confidence and self-esteem and find innovative ways to utilise these strengths to support and target areas of weakness.

• I have three children, including one son who is dyslexic.
• I love reading and can have several books on the go at any one time!
• Most commonly found at the side of a football pitch, bike track or fishing lake!

Surrey