Category Archives: Learning Difficulties

Turning ‘Errors’ into ‘Experiments’

We welcome Jade Arthur to the Qualified Tutor Blog. A US-based verbal exam prep tutor....

Connections Over Compliance #2: Should schools have meditation and mindfulness classes?

In what may come as a new perspective on the traditional break-down of subjects, Jack....

Connections Over Compliance #1: Confirmation Bias and Low Self-Esteem

JACK is BACK! Jack Simmonds, QT's incredible Lead Facilitator, returns for a new blog series,....

Language Matters #5: Use Your Words

In the final part of his series on the importance of language, Jack Simmonds takes....

Language Matters #4: Expressive and Receptive Communication

Jack returns for #4 in his new mini-series on the importance of language, and here,....

Language Matters #3: The Principle of Total Communication

Jack is Back! Blog #3 in Jack's series on the importance of language covers the....

Language Matters #2: Autism Spectrum Condition

Jack Simmonds returns for the second in his new blog series on the importance of....

Language Matters #1: Deficits and Disorders

In the first of a new series on the importance of the use of language....

Positive Regard, and its Application to the Qualified Tutor Training

Inspired by his reading of American psychologist, Carl R. Rogers, Jack turns our attention to....

How Tutors Can Use Empathy to Support Students Who Are Disengaged from School Podcast Transcript

In Ludo's transcription debut, ironically, it's Jack's podcast episode! Read on to discover more pearls....