Learning Links’ specialist tutoring team believe that every child deserves the opportunity to learn to their full potential. We’re passionate about providing effective support that is built on compassion, expertise and a genuine commitment to helping children thrive.
Our qualified teachers work in close partnership with families, and with schools, to discover children’s strengths, interests and challenges so we can develop a tutoring program that’s tailored to their needs.
Our aim is to create an encouraging and nurturing environment where children can build and maintain skills, motivation and confidence. We’re committed to helping your child achieve their learning goals and love celebrating the “I can do it now!” moments with reading, spelling, maths and other skills along the way.
Find out more about our services and fees below.
There are so many skills involved in learning, which means there are also many reasons for learning to be difficult. Our specialist tutors use the latest evidence-based strategies to support primary and high school students in all aspects of learning, including:
Literacy: reading, writing, spelling and comprehension
Numeracy: maths difficulties, working with numbers and worded problems
Learning difficulties and disabilities, including Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
Study skills and assignment strategies
Maintaining concentration
Planning, time management and organisation skills
Memory and recall strategies
Learning Links supports over 350 children and adolescents through our centre-based, online and in-school education support programs each year.
With over 50 years of experience, we’re leaders in learning difficulties, and helping children to build the skills and confidence to succeed is at the heart of everything we do.
Our qualified teachers are specially trained in using evidence-based teaching strategies that identify and address your child’s learning gaps. They understand that every child learns differently and tailor a specialist tutoring program to meet your child’s individual needs.
As part of a multidisciplinary team, our teachers work alongside speech pathologists and psychologists to enhance your child’s learning as well as their social and emotional development.
Our Education Support team is experienced in providing specialist tutoring for primary and high school students with a wide range of learning challenges including Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and ADHD.
Our experienced teachers offer one-to-one specialist tutoring in our learning centres across Sydney. Sessions can focus on literacy, numeracy or a combination of both – we don’t follow a set program so our sessions can easily be tailored to your child’s evolving needs.
Speak to our team today and find out how we can support your child to build their literacy, numeracy and study skills to achieve their individual learning goals.
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Our teachers offer the same specialist support through online tutoring. This means children who aren’t able to attend one of our centres, such as those living regionally or remotely, can benefit from the expertise of our tutors from the comfort of home.
Online tutoring offers some additional benefits for families including:
Group tutoring provides families with a more affordable way to access specialist tutoring support. The groups are carefully structured to match your child with others in the same stage of schooling and with similar learning needs.
Some additional benefits include:
This specialist tutoring guide aims to help you understand what specialist tutoring is, the effectiveness of our online tutoring program and how we tailor our programs for learning difficulties.
Download our guide to help make the best decision for your child.
Our qualified teachers use each child’s individual strengths, challenges and learning style to tailor an individualised tutoring program that will have the biggest impact on their literacy and numeracy development, and other areas of their learning where they may struggle.
Our specialist tutoring program is made up of:
The first step in every tutoring program is an assessment to identify your child’s strengths and the gaps in their understanding. Our teachers identify where your child begins to find learning difficult and start from there.
Our teachers set measurable goals, specific to your child’s needs that they can work towards throughout the program
During our specialist tutoring sessions, our qualified teachers use clear language, worked examples and a structured approach to re-teach the skills your child is having difficulty with. We model skills and assist your child for as long as possible to ensure they master skills before moving on and to reduce the chance of incorrect learning.
Our teachers use a range of teaching resources and strategies to support children to engage in their learning and experience success. In our classrooms, your child will have access to a variety of technologies including both computers and iPads, providing an opportunity to rehearse skills in a supportive and enjoyable way. Our aim is to make learning a rewarding experience for children by incorporating a variety of games to provide valuable opportunities for practice.
Students are reviewed regularly to measure progress and ensure they are mastering each skill before moving on. Revision is usually set each week to consolidate learning and assist your child in mastering literacy and numeracy skills.
Our teachers support children with Dyslexia every day through our specialist tutoring program and receive ongoing professional development in evidence-based teaching practices for reading. Through targeted literacy screening, Dyslexia tutoring helps to identify the gaps in your child’s letter-sound knowledge and uses a structured synthetic phonics approach to teach your child effective reading strategies. We also show your child how to assistive technology and multimedia resources to support their learning while they are still learning to read.
Learning Links’ specialist teachers are trained in providing targeted numeracy support for children with Dyscalculia. Dyscalculia tutoring helps to identify gaps in your child’s number knowledge and uses targeted teaching strategies to strengthen foundation skills in number recognition, counting and simple calculations to support confidence in future maths learning. We also show your child how to use visuals aids and hands-on resources, such as counting blocks and ten frames, to help them solve maths problems.
Executive functioning challenges associated with ADHD can cause difficulties across all academic tasks. ADHD tutoring helps to identify the executive functioning skills your child has the most difficulty with and develop strategies to navigate these including memory aids, time management, problem-solving and assignment planning. Our teachers also work to fill any gaps in your child’s learning where attention has lapsed.
Learning Links offers specialist tutoring for kids in our centres across Sydney and online for families throughout Australia.
Alexandria
Suite 3, Level 1, 140 Bourke Rd Alexandria NSW 2015
Bella Vista
6a/7 Meridian Place Bella Vista NSW 2153
Gledswood Hills
Suite 7, Level 1 SOMA Wellness 7 Gregory Hills Dr Gledswood Hills NSW 2557
Liverpool
Shop 2, 54-56 Macquarie St Liverpool NSW 2170
Peakhurst
12-14 Pindari Road Peakhurst NSW 2210
Online
Anywhere in Australia
Face-to-face specialist tutoring is available at our Learning Centres in Alexandria, Bella Vista, Gledswood Hills, Liverpool and Peakhurst.
Online video sessions are also available – see below for more information.
Sessions are run Monday to Friday 8.30am-6.00pm and Saturday 9.00am-5.00pm (times vary by location).
Sessions with our teachers are offered for 45 minutes or 60 minutes. It is recommended that children attend weekly to give them the best chance to make progress and keep up with their weekly school work.
Before commencing specialist tutoring sessions, our teacher will conduct a screening assessment to understand where your child may be experiencing gaps in their learning. We set specific, measurable goals based on your child’s needs and develop an Individual Learning Plan that outlines how these goals will be addressed. Students are then reviewed against these initial screening results and goals to measure progress over time.
Our teachers offer specialist tutoring sessions via video, to ensure children facing challenges with their learning can be supported from home.
Online tutoring sessions are as effective as face-to-face support and can offer a range of benefits, including:
Learning Links uses the Zoom video platform to deliver online sessions. Once your booking is confirmed, our team will email a unique Zoom link to access each session.
We have a range of fact sheets, articles and videos to empower parents to gain the tools, strategies and confidence to understand, support and advocate for their child in the best possible way.