The iDeaL Approach for Specialists provides the tools and resources for independent intervention specialists to assess, teach and monitor progress of students with specific literacy learning differences.
The iDeaL Approach for Specialists is not just a teaching method; it's a commitment to evidence-based practice rooted in extensive national and international research. As a user of the iDeaL Specialist Platform, you join a national network of motivated specialists.
The iDeaL Approach for Specialists Includes:
Research-Backed Foundations: Built on a solid foundation of national and international research, the iDeaL Approach for Specialists provides a systematic, cumulative, and purposefully slow scope and sequence tailored for intervention settings.
Comprehensive Assessment Tools: Access quality intervention assessment tools to craft diagnostic education plans for evidence-based literacy instruction.
Intervention Instruction: Equip yourself with tools and resources for intervention teaching – diagnostic, systematic, cumulative, and multi-sensory. Deliver instruction using explicit, direct methods for optimal results.
iDeaL Specialist Platform: Gain exclusive access to our platform, featuring a wealth of resources, quality assessments, and reporting systems.
Website Listing: As an iDeaL Specialist Platform user, your business will be listed on the Learning MATTERS website.
Becoming an iDeaL Specialist Platform user
A requirement to become an to becoming an iDeaL Specialist Platform user is to undertake a simple application process.
One or more of the following prerequisite qualifications/training is required to access the iDeaL Specialist Platform.
Learning MATTERS Intervention Teaching (LMIT) Certification.
IMSLE professional training.
LETRS professional training.
Orton Gillingham training.
iDeaL Consultancy PLD.
SPELD training.
What Does it Cost to Access the iDeaL Specialist Platform? Investment for an annual membership.
Option One:
Annual Subscription
$999 + GST
Per specialist you can have up to 35 students added on the iDeaL Specialist Platform.
Option Two:
Annual Subscription
$1250 + GST
Per specialist you can have up to 50 students added on the iDeaL Specialist Platform.
What if I do not have a prerequisite qualification/training ?
If you do not have a prerequisite qualification, do not worry, we have developed the Learning MATTERS Intervention Teaching (LMIT) Certification.
Participants of the LMIT course will be supported in learning and administering quality intervention assessment tools suitable for creating diagnostic education plans for use during evidence-based intervention literacy instruction. You will learn to teach in an intervention setting using a gold standard approach that is diagnostic, systematic, cumulative and multi-sensory, and delivered using explicit, direct instruction.
The LMIT Certification is an accepted prerequisite qualification as part of the iDeaL Specialist Platform user application process.
iDeaL Specialist Platform users
On this map we provide information intervention specialists/tutors using the iDeaL Specialist Platform.
We encourage you to contact them directly for further information regarding their services.
