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My name is Jane Dupree and I run Brainwaves International Online, the virtual tuition environment arising from the DLSC in Glemsford which closed over the Summer of 2017.
Teaching is what I was put on this earth to do; and whilst at teacher training college in Cambridge, studying to become a science teacher, I stumbled into the specialist field of dyslexia, which in the late 1970s was a little known area, I had found my niche. I have been working with children and adults who have Special Educational Needs since then. I was responsible for developing the Dyslexia Unit in the Mathematics and Computing College at Stansted in Essex, where students with a range of Specific Learning Difficulties including autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia flourished. I completed my specialist dissertation on Autism whilst gaining my Master’s Degree at Cambridge University.
After leaving full time teaching I set up my own business; teaching children, teenagers and adults and working in schools and with parents to support everyone’s understanding of the different way people with SpLDs prefer to learn. I am particularly interested in the development of study skills and thinking skills and believe these need introduced to children at a young age while the demands of the curriculum are manageable. In 2007 I published Help Students Improve Their Study Skills at the request of David Fulton Publishing, as David had heard me deliver a talk on this subject.
Due to demand for teaching, in 2007 my first tutor joined me in working with students, having finished her Hornsby Diploma and in January 2008 I opened the Dyslexia and Literacy Support Centre in Glemsford Suffolk. I was responsible for 3 additional tutors; we worked well as a team and prided ourselves on well planned, well-resourced lessons.
For the academic year 2023-24 I am now back to a solo career focusing on what I do best.
I love working with children, teenagers and adults, they are delight and keep me young. I pride myself on being able to offer sound advice to all of our parents with regard to their children’s learning differences.
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Contact Jane or call her on 07921 686510